Perfect tunes : a novel
(Book)

Songwriter Laura has left behind her safe life in Ohio for New York's East Village. But just as she begins to book gigs, she falls hard for a rock star on the rise who's as wasted as he is compelling. His accidental death leaves Laura reeling, and, she soon learns, pregnant. Raising her daughter Marie alone, she struggles to keep making music, but despite her best efforts it becomes too difficult. Fourteen years later, Marie finds herself grappling with her father's legacy as she battles depression and her mother. Laura has tried to keep Marie from asking too many questions about her biological father, but her efforts to protect Marie may only be putting her in greater danger. When Marie runs away to track down Dylan's family, it forces both mother and daughter to confront the heartbreak at the root of their relationship. Laura must face what she₂s lost to motherhood and find out what parts of her former self might still be hers to reclaim.