Emily: Perfect Tunes is the story of a mother and daughter who are very close in age because Laura, the protagonist of the book, got pregnant with Marie, her daughter, when she was in her very early twenties. The circumstances of that pregnancy and Marie coming into Laura's life really changed the course of what she thought her life was going to be like. Laura moved to New York, as many people do, with big dreams of being, in her case, a singer-songwriter. She is someone who has a lot of talent and not a lot of ambition in terms of figuring out how to get her talent out there. She falls in really quickly with a group of people, including the man who ends up being Marie's father, who are much more driven, much more ambitious, and much more savvy in the ways of the big city than she is.