NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as
a pop song Deep Cuts is both a romp into the indie sleaze era of the early aughts and a
timeless love story.”—Coco Mellors New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters “ Deep
Cuts will live alongside all the unforgettable music that Holly writes about so beautifully
with her whole heart.”—Cameron Crowe Academy Award–winning writer director of Almost Famous
Look the song whispered to me that day in my living room. Life can be so big. It’s a Friday
night in a campus bar in Berkeley fall of 2000 and Percy Marks is pontificating about music
again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox and Percy—who has no talent for music just lots of
opinions about it—can’t stop herself from overanalyzing the song indulging what she knows to
be her most annoying habit. But something is different tonight. The guy beside her at the bar
fellow student Joe Morrow is a songwriter. And he could listen to Percy talk all night. Joe
asks Percy for feedback on one of his songs—and the results kick off a partnership that will
span years ignite new passions in them both and crush their egos again and again. Is their
collaboration worth its cost? Or is it holding Percy back from finding her own voice? Moving
from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors Deep Cuts examines the nature of talent
obsession belonging and above all our need to be heard.
