Recommended If You Like: A Novel by Adam Voith

fiction, music · EN

“Absolutely excruciating. I loved it.” — JOSH TILLMAN, Father John Misty What happens when your taste is real but your world is fake? When your longing is legit but channels for expression have been defanged and sanitized? RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE is a novel built from the recorded cassette tape monologues of Anderson Humphrey, a music obsessive and aspiring snob known curiously as The Christian Humper in a vast but isolated underground scene in the 1990s. The stories are oral but recall zine culture at its photocopied peak, when music was still a total identity machine. A chance encounter with a wildly unsuccessful punk band and a newfound zeal for life beyond church camp lead The Humper and his friends on a chase for selfhood, status, and cool inside a world designed to stifle all three. Took me on a surprising tour through a life I did and didn’t lead. I found familiarities