{"product_id":"restrung-vijay-gupta-9780306835964","title":"Restrung: A Memoir of Music and Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the world's great concert halls to Los Angeles's Skid Row, violinist Vijay Gupta's searing memoir of prodigy, ambition, collapse, and renewal reveals how music is not just performance but also survival, a lifeline of human connection when everything else falls away--for readers of Jeremy Denk's \u003ci\u003eEvery Good Boy Does Fine, \u003c\/i\u003eHua Hsu's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStay True\u003c\/i\u003e, and Patrick Bringley's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll the Beauty in the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By twenty-five, Vijay Gupta had lived several lifetimes: he played Carnegie Hall at eight, studied at Juilliard and Yale before most had finished high school, joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic at nineteen, gave a celebrated TED Talk seen by millions, and launched a nonprofit. But behind the accolades was estrangement, addiction, and a private unraveling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRestrung\u003c\/i\u003e is Gupta's unflinching memoir of breaking apart and remaking a self. It begins with a boy raised between the strict devotion of Bengali immigrant parents and the ruthless demands of the conservatory. It follows him through the shimmering world of elite orchestras, into the depths of burnout and family collapse, and ultimately toward an unexpected reawakening--where he discovered that the music he'd spent his life studying was seen not as a curio of high culture or mere entertainment, but a lifeline of connection--most vividly in Skid Row, where people living through addiction, homelessness, and incarceration heard it as survival itself. \u003cp\u003e There, audiences spoke to how they saw their own lives reflected in the stories of composers too often frozen into marble busts: the rage of Beethoven, the fragility of Schumann's mind, the alienation of Bartók, the plight of Handel--who wrote \u003ci\u003eMessiah\u003c\/i\u003e bankrupt, ill, and broken, yet transformed despair into an enduring \u003ci\u003eHallelujah\u003c\/i\u003e. Pico Iyer, in his foreword, calls \u003ci\u003eRestrung\u003c\/i\u003e \"a rich and astonishing feast of stories\" told with \"vivid precision, unflinching candor, and heart,\" a book that unsettles assumptions about success while illuminating how art restores not just audiences, but artists themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vijay Gupta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0306835967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306835964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Da Capo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.25w x 1.05d","brand":"Vijay Gupta","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47761142513919,"sku":"9780306835964","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_675258a5-d886-4096-9bd1-fa1459d8bf0b.jpg?v=1765514591","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/restrung-vijay-gupta-9780306835964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}