Emily Gould
Emily is the author of And The Heart Says Whatever, Friendship, and Perfect Tunes (now in paperback!). With Ruth Curry, she founded Emily Books, which sells and publishes books by women as an imprint of Coffee House Press. She is a Features Writer at New York Magazine.
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Perfect Tunes, Emily’s novel about music and motherhood is now available in paperback! Here’s what people are saying:
“Perfect Tunes is an intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation. From the obsessive spark of first love to the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, Emily Gould captures life’s ups, downs, and in-betweens with wisdom and wry humor, giving us one of the great New York coming-of-age stories.”
—Stephanie Danler
“Perfect Tunes is mind-blowing. I have yet to read any text longer than like one page by Emily Gould in which she doesn’t articulate something I often thought, or felt, but never previously articulated or acknowledged. She is brilliant and fearless. Her take on mothers and daughters, and daughters’ boyfriends, and daughters’ boyfriends’ mothers, and daughters’ daughters boyfriends, is full of unspeakable insights, or at least I thought they were unspeakable, but there they are. Now I want everyone I know to read this book and talk about it with me.”
—Elif Batuman
“Perfect Tunes is a zippy and profound story of love, loss, heredity, and parenthood. I gulped it down, as will all mothers, New Yorkers, music fans, and lovers of quick-moving novels that are both funny and deep. I loved every page.”
—Emma Straub
“Her writing is observant and unfussy, and she has a knack for addressing serious subjects, such as the hardships of parenting and the darkness of depression, while keeping things light.”
-Emily Bobrow, The Washington Post
