Deep Cuts

Where real-life historical figures and public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. As a child she’d played violin so impeccably they let her move to New York as a teenager to study at some academy—but when her dad died and their family’s money vanished, she didn’t go home right away. A few rows of chairs had been set up near the front, all of them claimed by people who seemed to actually know Newsom: friends, family, former teachers visiting from her Northern California hometown to witness the return of their prodigal daughter. When he finally pulled back, he wore an expression of deep satisfaction, like the world was right again.