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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir Audiobook, by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Play Audiobook Sample

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir Audiobook

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir Audiobook, by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Elizabeth Wiley Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781684418763

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

78

Longest Chapter Length:

27:59 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:30 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

06:27 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A young woman leaves Appalachia for life as a classical musician—or so she thinks.

When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group "performs," the microphones are never on. Instead, the music blares from a CD. The mastermind behind this scheme is a peculiar and mysterious figure known as The Composer, who is gaslighting his audiences with music that sounds suspiciously like the Titanic movie soundtrack. On tour with his chaotic ensemble, Hindman spirals into crises of identity and disillusionment as she "plays" for audiences genuinely moved by the performance, unable to differentiate real from fake.

Sounds Like Titanic is a surreal, often hilarious coming-of-age story. Hindman writes with precise, candid prose and sharp insight into ambition and gender, especially when it comes to the difficulties young women face in a world that views them as silly, shallow, and stupid. As the story swells to a crescendo, it gives voice to the anxieties and illusions of a generation of women, and reveals the failed promises of a nation that takes comfort in false realities.

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“In our new age of malleable facts and fungible truth, Sounds Like Titanic hits some trenchant notes on the nature of truth and uncomfortable observations on gender. She anguishes over both the deception (and an overwhelming fear of being caught) and what feels like the betrayal of a lifetime of support from family and her small-town community. But it’s also entertaining.”

— Amazon.com

Quotes

  • “A memoir about identity and finding a sense of self that is funny, personal, empathetic and, amazingly, true.”

    — BookPage
  • “[P]rovocative…A tricky, unnerving, consistently fascinating memoir.”

    — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Awards

  • A BookPage Top Pick of the Month in Memoirs
  • An Amazon Best Book of the Month
  • Finalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography

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About Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman has “performed” on PBS and at concert halls worldwide. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, Brevity, and Hippocampus. She holds a BA degree in Middle Eastern studies, an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and a PhD in English from the University of North Texas. She teaches creative writing at Northern Kentucky University.

About Elizabeth Wiley

Elizabeth Wiley, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a seasoned actor, dialect coach, and theater professor. In addition to her growing portfolio of audiobooks, her voice can be heard in The Idea of America, Colonial Williamsburg’s virtual learning curriculum; in Paul Meier’s e-textbook Speaking Shakespeare; and modeling US-English on one of the world’s top language-learning products.