--bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV--were MTV. The boundaries of American culture were exploding, and music was leading the way. It was also the 1990s when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renée, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway.

He was tall. She was short. He was shy.

She was a social butterfly. They had nothing in common except that they both loved music. Music brought them together and kept them together.

And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss. --From publisher description.