Lo Fi

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 hungover 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 altogether.

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.

About the Author

Liz Riggs holds an MFA from New York University, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, MTV, American Songwriter magazine, and others. She lives in East Nashville with her husband and dogs.

Reviews

"Carefully spun, with gritty insights about the music industry and a young woman's journey to becoming the songwriter she was always meant to be... A magical novel." —The Southern Review of Books

"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." —Marie Claire

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

"Music lovers will devour this." —Publishers Weekly

"Lo Fi has the intimacy of a Sally Rooney novel and the raw yearning of a Lucinda Williams song. A gorgeous, accomplished novel." —Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses and The End of the World is a Cul de Sac

Dimensions: 15.82 x 2.74 x 23.7 cm