Co-op availableSignificant bound galley mailing to media and booksellers, including bound galley promotional offer through the American Booksellers Association’s “Advance Access–Underrepresented Voices” program. Additional digital review copy distribution to media, booksellers, and librarians through EdelweissNational print, public radio, and online media campaignsExcerpts in Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices and Harvard ReviewAuthor playlist available in press materialAuthor appearances at MPIBA FallCon and in Boulder, CO; Denver, CO; Boston, MA; New York, NY; and more TBDReading group guide development and book club outreachSimultaneous eBook publication and promotionPostcards availableEarly outreach and giveaways through LibraryThingPromotion through BLP’s social media channels and website: www.blpress.orgPromotion through the author’s website: www.nataliehodges.comEditor: Erika GoldmanCover designer: Roman MuradovMarketing and publicity efforts supported by Molly Mikolowski of A Literary Light
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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.
