Forging a familial bond over their shared artistic talents and secrets, four young people navigate a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love reinforce and divide them throughout the course of their lives.
...[a] stunningly resonant debut ... With remarkable assurance, Gabel takes the four through their shaky early performances and expertly ties their individual and collective lives together with generous doses of empathy ... A virtuoso performance.
...phenomenal first novel ... Gabel’s captures the classical music world in all its chaotic cutthroat glory ... 'We found each other,' [the characters] say at the end. And how lucky we readers are, to have found them, too.
