A Song for a New Day is a science fiction novel by American writer Sarah Pinsker, first published in trade paperback and ebook by Berkley Books in September 2019. The first British edition was issued in hardcover and ebook by Ad Astra/Head of Zeus in August 2020.
Good stuff. Really liked the book, loved the idea of looking at music and art in the midst of a broken down future.
Pinsker manages to accurately predict so many of the societal changes that occur due to a pandemic. Her descriptions of the discomfort that people feel with personal-space after growing up in isolation and only seeing people in video-chat or VR really capture the (post?) pandemic anxieties about crowds, public transit, restaurants, etc. And her description of the apartment wall of post-it notes with "what used to be normal" reminded me of all the normal things that we, quite sadly, no longer do.
