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千禧年某個周五秋夜，柏克萊的校園酒吧，投幣點唱機流瀉出霍爾與奧茲的旋律，
而Percy又開始他對音樂的一番高談闊論…過度分析歌曲是他最惱人的習慣，
倒不是他多有音樂天賦，只是對音樂有些…「小意見」，或者說，一番見解。
巧的是，今晚Percy旁邊的客人是另一名學生Joe Morrow，身為詞曲創作人，他可以整晚聽Pervy大聊，Joe請Percy為他的一首歌提供建議，由此開啟了兩人長達數年的伙伴關係。
合作點燃了兩人新的熱情，卻也一次次的挑戰、衝撞甚至壓垮彼此的自尊。在創作的激情與知己間的身後羈絆之間，他們會跨過那道名為只是朋友的檻嗎？或者，兩人的合作，終將牽制Percy...
從布魯克林的酒吧到舊金山的華麗舞池，本書深入刻劃了人我關係、執念與歸屬，更觸及了人心最深層的渴望：被我們的珍視之人所聽見。
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “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
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM A24 • A BOOK RIOT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel.”—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
It was the love story of a decade. Or it should have been.
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 their instant chemistry kicks off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and crush their egos again and again. Will they ever take the leap beyond “just friends”? Or is their collaboration holding Percy back from finding her own voice?
As Percy and Joe circle each other from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors, Deep Cuts examines the nature of connection, obsession, belonging, and above all, our need to be heard by the people we love.
