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The Day The Music Died

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**COMPLETED with new chapter released every day...
 Imagine a world where music has been tweaked to the point where songs become catastrophically addicting. The hooks and jingles that dominate the industry now invade and erode our brains. The world systematically stamps out music in response: the modulation of voices evened, industries shut down, films silenced. Don McLean got it right: something touched us deep inside, the day the music died. 
  
  Enter Shira. Shira has grown up in the first generation post-music. All she knows is quiet and the carefully coiffed fundraisers of the anti-music political action committees. But when Shira meets Lark, she realizes music is more than a drug. He introduces her to a whole musical underground, hidden in plain site in Los Angeles, teaching her about rock, jazz, rap, swing, melodic prayer, and more. But Shira still has to reckon with the danger of the music that traumatized her parent's generation. What happens when a public good transforms into a collective terror...where do the lines get drawn, how does fear pull us apart and how can joy bring us together?
  
The Day The Music Died is a YA speculative fiction romance novel set in this world, a twist on the classic Fahrenheit 451.All Rights Reserved

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