num_pages: 272
description: Sounds Like Titanic tells the unforgettable story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Struggling to pay her college tuition Hindman accepts a dream position in an award-winning ensemble that brings ready money. But the ensemble is a sham. When the group performs the microphones are off while the musicwhich sounds suspiciously like the soundtrack to the movie Titanicblares from a hidden CD player. Hindman who toured with the ensemble and its peculiar composer for four years writes with unflinching candor and humor about her surreal and quietly devastating odyssey. Sounds Like Titanic is at once a singular coming-of-age memoir about the lengths to which one woman goes to make ends meet and an incisive articulation of modern anxieties about gender class and ambition.
language: English
title: Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company