American Music, Jane Mendelsohn
American Music, Jane Mendelsohn
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American Music

Author: Jane Mendelsohn

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2010

Synopsis

This luminous love story centers on Milo, a severely wounded veteran of the Iraq war confined to a rehabilitation hospital, and Honor, his physical therapist. When Honor touches Milos destroyed back, mysterious images from the past appear to each of them, puzzling her and shaking him to the core. As Milos treatment progresses, the images begin to weave together in an intricate, mysterious tapestry of stories that winds through several generations. There are Joe and Pearl, a husband and wife in the 1930s, whose marriage is tested by Pearls bewitching artistic cousin, Vivian. There is the heartrending story of a woman photographer in the 1960s and the shocking theft of her lifes work. And the story of a man and woman in seventeenthcentury Turkeya eunuch and a sultans concubinewhose forbidden love is captured in music. The stories converge in a symphonic crescendo that reveals the farflung origins of Americas endlessly romantic soul and exposes the source of Honor and Milos own love. A beautiful mystery and a meditation on loveits power and limitationsAmerican Music is a brilliantly original novel told in Jane Mendelsohns distinctive, mesmerizing style.

About Jane Mendelsohn

Jane Mendelsohn was born in New York City, and graduated from Yale. Her first novel, I Was Amelia Earhart, spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. She is married and lives in New York with her husband, filmmaker Nick Davis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by robin on March 14, 2024

An American Romance In Stories And Music Jane Mendelsohn's evocative novel "American Music" (2010) is a story of American loves, American dreams and American music, as exemplified by the saxophone, the cymbals, Count Basie, and Billie Holiday. The short book becomes far-flung in time and place, but t......more

Goodreads review by Jill on June 15, 2011

Through the ages, the power of stories has defined and guided and transformed and healed us. On rare occasions, it has even saved lives. In the ancient One Thousand and One Nights, for example, the legendary Persian queen Scheherazade kept herself alive with mesmerizing stories that persuaded the Ki......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on August 10, 2016

American Music was an A+ audio book! It addressed a relevant, but sad issue for our times in a very positive, lyrical way. The story involved an Iraq veteran and a massage therapist who is working with him at a Veteran's hospital. The plot is presented in dream-like and/or jazz influenced sequences,......more

Goodreads review by Meret on April 23, 2019

I'm happy I found it, I'm extremely happy that I read it. It's one of those rare rare books that touched me in a very very deep level. I'm mumbling, I know. It just made me... Idk. Open, tender, raw and grateful at the same time. I'm not going to tell you "it's a story about... XYZ". You're intellige......more

Goodreads review by Matt on April 17, 2011

I'm sure I read about "I was Amelia Earhart" when it came out, but this one passed me by, maybe because its title is too generic and too evocative of that Violent Femmes song for me to remember it. But this is a really satisfying read, and I'm glad to have stumbled across it. The basic premise center......more

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