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From the author of I USED TO BE Amelia Earhart, a luminous love story that winds through several generations—told in Jane Mendelsohn’s distinctive mesmerizing style.
At its centre are Milo, a severely wounded veteran of the Iraq Conflict confined to a rehabilitation medical center, and Honor, his physical therapist, a past dancer. When Honor details Milo’s damaged back, inexplicable images from the past appear to each of them, puzzling her and shaking him to the core.
As Milo’s treatment advances, the images begin to weave together into an elaborate, inexplicable tapestry of testimonies. You will discover Joe and Pearl, a husband and wife in the 1930s whose relationship is analyzed by Pearl’s bewitching artistic cousin, Vivian. There is the heartrending story of a female shooter in the 1960s and the stunning theft of her life’s work. The picaresque life of a female who has a kid too young and sees herself always on the move from job to job and man to man. Along with the story of a guy and a female in seventeenth-century Turkey—a eunuch and a sultan’s concubine—whose forbidden love is captured in music. The testimonies converge in a symphonic crescendo that reveals the far-flung roots of America’s endlessly loving heart and exposes the foundation of Honor and Milo’s own love.
A beautiful puzzle and a meditation on love—its vitality and its restrictions—American Music is a brilliantly original novel.
