These Songs I Know By Heart, Erin Brubacher
These Songs I Know By Heart, Erin Brubacher
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These Songs I Know By Heart

Author: Erin Brubacher

Narrator: Erin Brubacher

Unabridged: 3 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Book*hug Press

Published: 01/07/2025


Synopsis

Finalist for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she's going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other beloveds show her that motherhood is more than giving birth, art is never finished, and love is not linear. Through a three-day canoe trip, chance encounters, fierce female friendship, step-parenting, IVF, pandemic isolation, and quiet moments between humans, These Songs I Know By Heart weaves vignettes of everyday mythology into an absorbing and honest meditation on the connections in our lives. With razor-sharp reflection, humour, and most of all love, we are reminded that there's no formula to life and that instead, we must celebrate what makes the small moments of our lives extraordinary.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katy

I absolutely loved this book. A story told through a collection of pitch perfect vignettes, we see the life of our protagonist pieced together like scraps of a patchwork quilt. Humour, love, friendship, grief and what it means to be a woman are all facets of this journey and story. People weave in a......more

Goodreads review by Tina

I loved reading THESE SONGS I KNOW BY HEART by Erin Brubacher! I loved the writing style which included some dialogue like a play and vignettes. I really enjoyed the humour, the focus on female friendship, the Toronto setting, the complexities of modern motherhood, the way the protagonist nicknamed......more

Goodreads review by Paige

A fictional memoir of one woman’s journey to motherhood and creating a family before and during the pandemic. The beginning consists of the present day with a lot of memories from the past thrown in, from all over her timeline. There’s no real organization, just however the memories are triggered by......more

Goodreads review by Sophie

Loved so much and cried so much. Reading this book made me need to call my mom. It also kickstarted my new addiction to reading as I walk.......more