In this Book
- An American Tune: A Novel
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Break Away Books
While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. An American Tune moves back and forth in time, telling the story of Jane, a girl from a working-class family who fled town after she was complicit in a deadly bombing, and Nora, the woman she became, a wife and mother living a quiet life in northern Michigan. An achingly poignant account of a family crushed under the weight of suppressed truths, An American Tune illuminates the irrevocability of our choices and how those choices come to compose the tune of our lives.
Table of Contents
- Prologue. “Deja Vu”
- pp. 1-7
- Part One. The Expensive Moment
- 1 “Turn, Turn, Turn”
- pp. 11-26
- 2 “Blowin’ in the Wind”
- pp. 27-37
- 3 “Unchained Melody”
- pp. 38-54
- 4 “Tomorrow Never Knows”
- pp. 55-64
- 5 “Bird on a Wire”
- pp. 65-71
- 6 “For What It’s Worth”
- pp. 72-79
- 7 “White Rabbit”
- pp. 80-90
- 8 “Everybody’s Talkin’”
- pp. 91-97
- 10 “Fortunate Son”
- pp. 105-110
- 11 "Gimme Shelter”
- pp. 111-121
- 12 “Purple Haze”
- pp. 122-129
- 13 “Paint It Black”
- pp. 130-137
- Part Two. The Continuous Life
- 14 “Our House”
- pp. 141-155
- 15 “Good Day Sunshine”
- pp. 156-163
- 16 “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
- pp. 164-169
- 17 “Go Now!”
- pp. 170-177
- 18 "Teach Your Children”
- pp. 178-189
- 19 “The Long and Winding Road”
- pp. 190-201
- 20 “Mercy Mercy Me”
- pp. 202-213
- 21 “The Things We Said Today”
- pp. 214-217
- 22 “Helpless”
- pp. 218-226
- 23 “She’s Not There”
- pp. 227-237
- 24 “Bridge over Troubled Water”
- pp. 238-246
- Part Three. Unfinished Days
- 25 “Stand by Me”
- pp. 249-259
- 26 “Hazy Shade of Winter”
- pp. 260-265
- 27 “High out of Time”
- pp. 266-273
- 28 “The Sunshine of Your Love”
- pp. 274-282
- 29 “MacArthur Park”
- pp. 283-288
- 30 “Carry On”
- pp. 289-296
- 31 “Get Together”
- pp. 297-303
- 32 “Let it Be”
- pp. 304-310
- 33 Here, There and Everywhere”
- pp. 311-315