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LO FI

Liz Riggs

In LO FI, across the sweaty music clubs and late-night house parties of Nashville, an aspiring songwriter tries to make friends, find love, and write songs - without losing herself.
If you're looking for Alison Hunter, you can catch her most nights at The Venue, a Nashville club hosting acts from Bon Iver to Death Cab. Sounds glamorous - but not for Al, who's working the door with a boy with mysterious eyes, bumming drinks and worse from the tattooed bartender, and wondering if she'll ever make it as a songwriter. One night, as a storm floods the city, her fly-by-night touring-band boyfriend washes into town, and Al is reminded of all the reasons she should drop him... and all the things that keep her hanging on.

As her girlfriends urge her to forget a shattering open mic fiasco, Al tries to power through her hung-over mornings and pull even one song worth a damn out of her guitar. Torn between dreams and despair, she becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a troubled indie star and slowly starts to lose it herself - until one reckless night threatens to derail her all together.

As propulsive and sexy as the rasp of an overdriven amp, LO FI is an open-hearted love song to the messy truth of the creative life, the clash of lust and love, and our shared yearning to be heard.

Liz Riggs has been a high school English teacher, a talent recruiter, a wine bar hostess andalwaysa writer. She holds a BA in English from Miami University and an MFA from NYU, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, MTV, American Songwriter Magazine, and others. She lives in East Nashville.
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Published 2024-07-01 by Riverhead

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Published 2024-07-09 by Riverhead

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a love letter to youthful recklessness, pursuing a creative career, and the emo bands of the late 2000s.

Fabulous . . . perfectly captures the angst and cringeworthy predicaments of navigating hard love and huge heartbreak in your twenties. Music nerds won't be able to turn away, but you'll love it even if you've never owned a record in your life.

Swoony, sexy, and melancholy. . . a tattered love letter to youth, music, and Nashville.

Riggs' novel is vital, electric. Al is magnetic, and readers will root for her, eagerly following her triumphs and her heartaches. . . . A dynamic rock song of a novel from an exciting debut author.

Like a sultry country song itself, Lo Fi sees Hunter navigate her way through dating, heartbreak, and difficult but transformational decisions.

Lo Fi is a smart and sexy literary rom com that will have you flying through the pages, rooting for Al Hunter as she navigates professional mishaps, sexual escapades, new and complicated friendships.

A backstage pass to late aughts Nashville. . . . A stunning portrait of youth and all its fun yet fraught possibilities, with characters whose chemistry's as strong as their drinks. Liz Riggs's prose pulses like the live music in her novel.

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Lo Fi has the intimacy of a Sally Rooney novel and the raw yearning of a Lucinda Williams song. A gorgeous, accomplished novel.

This book simmers with one-line zingers that boil into a can't-put-down stunner of a storyline that'll have you speed reading to the last page.

Music lovers will devour this.