***2018 RELIT AWARD: LONG SHORTLIST***

In The End of Music, Jamie Fitzpatrick’s two mesmerizing, interwoven narratives circle the lives of Joyce, a modern young woman navigating the fraught social mores of a small town in its post-war heyday, and her son, Carter, more than fifty years later, whose days as an aspiring rock star are over. As Joyce’s memories of the past begin to escape her, her son’s past returns to haunt him. Brilliantly and unflinchingly revealing the inner lives of his characters, Fitzpatrick offers an extraordinary novel, with two startling twists, about women, men, and reckoning with the past.

Jamie Fitzpatrick’s first novel, You Could Believe in Nothing (Vagrant Press), has been called “a fast-moving, unsentimental look at amateur hockey, masculinity, mid-life crisis, drink, drugs and family secrets … brisk, engaging and, in the end, very moving” (Globe and Mail). His writing has also appeared in The New Quarterly, St. John’s Telegram, Newfoundland Quarterly and the 2013 Cuffer Anthology (forthcoming). He lives in St. John’s.

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• Short-listed, The Relit Award

"From its pitch-percect opening to its crescendo conclusion Jamie Fitzpatrick's second novel is a ranging, honed exploration of the familial and artistic bonds that unite and divide, uplift and betray us."

The Telegram

"Listen. Buy The End of Music. You won't be able to put it down."

The Packet

"The End of Music is one of the best books I have read this year…"

The Telegram

"…one of the most hotly anticipated books of the fall season."

Atlantic Books Today