From May 15 - 29, Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodges is available with no waiting on the Libby app through Pima County Public Library. Library card holders can join thousands of others around the globe in a worldwide digital book club!
How to join
Borrow the ebook or audiobook in the Libby app or our online catalog. Be sure to also visit the Big Library Read website where you can access a discussion guide for your book club.
And don't forget to read a special letter from the author, Natalie Hodges.
About Uncommon Measure
A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becoming.
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time?
Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance anxiety forced her to give up the dream of becoming a concert solo violinist. Anchoring her story in illuminating research in neuroscience and quantum physics, Hodges traces her own passage through difficult family dynamics, prejudice, and enormous personal expectations to come to terms with the meaning of a life reimagined—one still shaped by classical music but moving toward the freedom of improvisation.
About Big Library Read
Big Library Read is an international reading program sponsored by OverDrive that connects millions of readers around the world with a digital book through public libraries.
