The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work

Named a best book of the year by BookPage and California Review of Books

From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation.

"[A] delightfully offbeat book with unexpectedly profound overtones."-The Wall Street Journal

The tuba's sound is mighty, emerging, it seems, from deep in the human body. Very little music has, up until recently, been written to play to i...