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Novel the glass hotel6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() The years progress, and Laura’s daughter starts asking about her cult icon father - and through their complicated, parallel journeys of self-discovery, Gould poignantly and carefully explores what happens when plans go awry, expectations and priorities shift, and people adapt in their pursuit of love, meaning, and fulfillment. We witnessed how money affects people, and how hey fall apart when it's gone. ![]() The book focuses on grief and loss, with each character dealing with the loss of something in different ways. The rest of the book tracks the aftermath of these events, jumping ahead in time to see Laura struggling as a single mom, while her former roommate - who ended up joining the band in Laura’s stead - enjoys the critical success Laura so desperately desired. The book focuses on grief and loss, with each character dealing with the loss of something in differemore I think I found his chapter the most meaningful. In the span of just a few months, everything changes - the Twin Towers fall, Dylan drowns while high, his band asks Laura to step in as lead singer, she declines, and finds out she’s pregnant. ![]() She’s chasing her dream of making it as a singer-songwriter, spending her nights waitressing and doing drugs and/or having sex with Dylan, an up-and-coming musician. ![]() Perfect Tunes is a candid, big-hearted story about choices and consequences, following young Ohioan Laura, whose story begins when she is a 22-year-old recent transplant in early 2000s NYC. ![]()
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