To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman
At the end of 2010, Howard Fishman, a musician and writer, attended a party where he knew few of the other guests, and, as a way of managing his social anxiety, began a careful examination of the host’s bookshelves.
Suddenly, a curious song came up on the speaker—a woman singing ruefully about “a place they call Lonesome,” where, all around her, she hears the voice, feels the presence of, an absent love in a bird and a brook, in “a pig or two,” and, hilariously, in “a sort of a squirrel thing.”
