Songs of No Provenance

<p><b>A suspenseful, wildly engaging debut novel following a musician spiraling in self-doubt and self-searching after a night – and a relationship – gone wrong.</b><br><br><i>Songs of No Provenance</i> tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage. With the threat of an internet storm looming over her, Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she’s forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking – and her complicated history with a friend and mentee – while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member.<br><br>Lydi Conklin boldly explores kink, shame, queer appropriation, fame hunger, cancel culture, trans nonbinary identity and how to make art without ego, all the while asking how Joan might forge a new future for herself.<br><br>Suffused with flashbacks to a musical underworld as seductive as it is seedy, <i>Songs of no Provenance </i>is a visceral, gutsy and profound debut novel about love, self-acceptance and clawing oneself to safety.</p>