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Lisa Tucker is the author of The Song Reader, Shout Down the Moon, Once Upon a Day, The Cure for Modern Life, The Promised World, and The Winters in Bloom. Her books have been published in twelve countries and selected for a dozen national book clubs, including the Book of the Month Club, Doubleday Book Club, People, Amazon Book of the Year, Barnes & Noble Reading Group program, and the Book Sense list.
Tucker grew up in Missouri. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, she went on to receive graduate degrees in English and mathematics and was awarded fellowships in both fields. She has taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, the Taos Writers' Conference and UCLA. Lisa has given readings and talks all over the country, and her short work has appeared in many anthologies. She currently lives in Philadelphia.
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Song reading is such an unusual idea. Can you tell us how you came up
with it?
Like most writers, I've always been fascinated with words, but growing
up, we didn't have many books. We didn't even have magazines, but we always
had a record player. My earliest relationship with words was through songs,
and I've found that's true for a surprising number of people. The specific
idea of song reading came to me about ten years ago, when I became very
interested in psychology, especially how memory works. When it hit me that the
songs people remember may say something about them, I decided to test the
theory on my family and friends, just like Mary Beth does in the novel.
You've done song reading yourself then?
Yes, but I've never made any money for it, or even received afghans and
cakes like she does! Some of the charts in the book were developed from my
experiences; most are invented. Of course now that I've written this novel,
I'm always being asked questions about songs and I love that. When people tell
me about their music—favorite songs, favorite bands, the songs they can't
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