In his memoir, The Perfect Sound, poet Garrett Hongo writes lyrically and lovingly about all of the ways music has defined his life — from the waves in Hawaii to the doo-wop and soul in LA to a ghostly lute in Rome — as well as his lifelong journey in pursuit of the perfect stereo set-up. In this playlist he put together
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Book Reviews492 Fanfare November/December 2022NovDec 2022 46.2.qxp_c 9/25/22 10:13 AM Page 493 THE PERFECT SOUND: A Memoir in Stereo. By garrett hongo. new york: pantheon, 2022. 526 pp. cloth. $30 With this wide-ranging and lyrical memoir, Garrett Hongo joins a small club of gifted authors who have turned writing about music into literature.
Higa on Hongo: The Perfect Sound | The Hawaiʻi Review of BooksThe Perfect Sound charts how an obsessive pursuit of the perfect sound system echoes Garrett Hongo’s melancholy over his Hawai‘i diaspora life.The Hawaiʻi Review of Books Jeffrey J. Higa [https://hawaiireviewofbooks.com/stories/higa-on-hongo]