Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir Feat. Author Katie DeBonville in Conversation with Jean Stehle

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Grace Notes: A Musical Memoir Feat. Author Katie DeBonville in Conversation with Jean Stehle

A tune with familiar strains… For Katie DeBonville, life in music began in earnest when she first picked up the flute at the age of ten. Music became the catalyst through which she learned to understand herself, the common thread woven through a life anchored in family and friendship. In this debut memoir, the author reflects on the role music has played throughout her life, from listening to Top 40 tunes as a teen in the 1980s to navigating her chosen career in a field that is music-based without being performance-based. Her discoveries—about both herself and her relationships— are universal. Grace Notes is the story of a life composed, like a piece of music, by a woman approaching her fiftieth birthday, as she goes through a time of great personal change in a world that’s in flux. It’s both messy and graceful, a tune with familiar strains that is ultimately a melody all its own.

“Katie DeBonville’s remarkable debut, Grace Notes, takes our common connection to music as a springboard from which to dive into the deep waters of memory, family relationships, questions of ability, identity and ambition.” — Pamela Petro, author of The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir

“Katie DeBonville’s captivating essay collection, Grace Notes, is a love song to love songs, a compelling ballad celebrating music as the joyful, intriguing, consistent thread woven through the story of a life” —Cindy House, author of Mother Noise

From Copper Dog Books