Daisy Jones and the Six

Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
music 1970s love addiction

Our Take

Reid constructs the oral history of a 1970s rock band whose implosion is as inevitable as it is beautiful. The form creates the pathos — everyone is speaking from after, remembering the person they were in love with, the album they made, the moment it ended. You hear the music.

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