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Duet for One

by Martha Anne Toll

Music, memory, and unfinished connections

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Music, memory, and unfinished connections

Set amid the aftermath of a family’s musical life, the novel centers on violinist Adam and the memories that shape his relationships. His mother, Adele, performed in a celebrated two-piano team with his father, Victor, whose grief encompasses both her death and the loss of his career. Adam’s reflections bring questions of parental absence into view alongside his lingering bond with Dara, an English professor navigating divorce. Music provides the family context, while loss, intimacy, and the possibility of renewed love connect its personal histories.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fiction about music and family relationships.
  • Readers drawn to stories involving grief, divorce, and reflection on past relationships.

Themes

Music and artistic lifeFamily absence and griefLove and connectionMemory and past relationships

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Book overview

Haunted by his youthful romance with Dara, gifted and sensitive violinist Adam must confront his past to find a way forward. At the Philadelphia graveside of his mother, Adele Pearl, wife and partner in a celebrated two-piano team, his father, Victor, mourns the loss of both his wife and musical career. As Adam reflects on their relationship, he realizes his mother was absent in ways that truly mattered. Struggling with the emptiness left by a series of failed relationships with talented women, Adam grapples with his connection to Dara, an English professor burdened by her own divorce and blind to what she lost in him. Martha Anne Toll's Duet for One weaves a poignant narrative of loss, connection, and the enduring hope that love can be found where life resides, following her acclaimed debut, Three Muses.
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