Symphony for the City of the Dead

what?! what? holy shit WHAT?! this story is BANANAS and I had NO IDEA about any of it. M. T. Anderson is SO GOOD at contextualizing all of this and making every chapter of a biography of a composer end on a cliffhanger. I could not put this down. I learned so much! I feel sick at all the things I didn't know! I want to listen to classical music now!

I think it's probably one that's best for high school +, it's got some seriously grim shit in it. I think it's one that would probably have to be hand-sold... but for real! It's so great! I figured it would be great, because M.T. Anderson is so great and I had heard such good things about it, but, just to add my own 2 cents: so great!