Witty and wise a true candidate for the All-Time Desert Island Top 5 Books About Pop Music.' 'This is a lightly-handed, skillful and sincere celebration of pop, of love, sad songs, bad songs and the long, nearly unbearable ache of being a young widower. Chuck Klosterman, bestselling author of Fargo Rock Cty, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Killing Yourself to Live and Chuck Klosterman IV Love is a Mix Tape is the happiest, saddest, greatest book about rock'n'roll that I've ever experienced.' 'No rock critic- living or dead, American or otherwise- has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield. and it’s the truth of those details that make this memoir so touching.” - Newsweek “Sheffield writes with such aching remembering, you feel like you are invading his privacy. “Many of us use pop culture as a mirror of our emotional lives, but Sheffield happily walks right through the looking glass.” - Los Angeles Times Like that song on the radio, every word of Rob’s book is true. “The finest lines ever written about rock ‘n’ roll. “Humorous, heartbreaking, and heroic.” - Entertainment Weekly “A memoir that manages, no small feat, to be funny and beautifully forlorn at the same time.” - The New York Times Book Review You’ll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your head-the one that comes to mind when you think of the love of your life.

Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die in his arms. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief.

Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life.

“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”-Chuck Klosterman

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