GARRETT HONGO
THE PERFECT SOUND
A MEMOIR IN STEREO
“Garrett Hongo is among writers who believe you can save everything, everyone—if only their music put into written words. Obsessively building and rebuilding audio machines, he recovers his Hawaiian childhood, his gone family, and the ancestors. The Perfect Sound is an enlightening read."
—Maxine Hong Kingston
“A memoir of self-discovery via homage to the richness of sound.”
“One could approach the memoir as an exploration of the relationship between music and poetry, the craft (techne) and the speech (logos), but that leaves little space for the machines that now reflect “technology.”
“As he describes in lyrical, fervent passages, his penchant for spinning vinyl on cheap turntables would eventually become a love for elaborate equipment, amplifiers, speakers, and vacuum tubes.”