Three well-written novels with strong narratives are on for today. Brickley explores the soundtrack of our lives in the early 2000s. Gelfuso mixes SciFi and the Cold War, while Carson pays tribute to "The Twilight Zone."
"Deep Cuts" by Holly Brickley
It’s Berkeley, year 2000, as this novel opens in a campus bar where Percy Marks is having a planning session with her roommate, Megan, about some off-campus party they’ll be hosting. She has this tendency to pontificate obsessively about music, and it soon catches the ear of her fellow student, Joe Morrow, who’s a budding songwriter. He sidles up to her and asks for her opinion on a number of songs, and then requests that she critique a song he has written. It’s not long before there’s a relationship of creative dependency established, and Percy enters the inner circle of Joe and Zoe, his would-be gir
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