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Each song on Julian’s iPod, “that greatest of all human
inventions,” is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was
single, there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, there’s one for the
day his son was born. But when Julian’s family falls apart, even music loses
its hold on him.

Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his
life’s soundtrack -- and life itself -- start to play again. Julian stumbles
into a bar and sees Cait O’Dwyer, a flame-haired Irish rock singer, performing
with her band, and a strange and unlikely love affair is ignited. Over the next
few months, Julian and Cait’s passion plays out, though they never meet. What
follows is a heartbreaking dark comedy, the tenderest of love stories, and a
perfectly observed tale of the way we live now.

Arthur Phillips is the internationally bestselling author of
Angelica, The Egyptologist, and Prague,
which was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First
Fiction. He lives in New York
with his wife and two sons.

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those
who think, and for those of us who try to think and feel, The Song Is You
captures the flip sides of life at middle age pretty much perfectly. Arthur
Phillips is that rare thing among fiction writers, a wise guy who’s also wise.”
-- Kurt Andersen

“Impossible to put down.” -- New York Times Book Review
 
Read Phillips
on music in The Believer. Check
out Phillips’
playlist for the New York Times
Living with Music.