A biography that doesn't quite exist, about a violinist who can't be found, as told by people who don't agree on much. Novelist Geoff Berner has been tasked with writing a biography of DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimerical musician who has, it seems, dropped off the face of the earth. In the course of his search for DD, Berner interviews her friends, ex-bandmates, ex-lovers, and others. They paint such variable portraits of her that each successive attempt to describe her casts doubt on the previous testimony. As his project is taken over by the lively, infuriating, entertaining tales, a wounded, gifted, and complex DD starts to emerge from all the eyewitness accounts and swear-to-God true stories. Who is DD? Where did she go? And why didn't that book get written? Travel through a world of knockabout musicians and chancers, on the trail of an inimitable artist who truly lives in the moment, for better or worse.
"Chronicles a subculture that's generally examined only fleetingly, in impermanent media such as radio shows and weekly magazines."
Georga Straight
"Very well written…made me laugh out loud."
Nonstop Reader
"Geoff Berner's marvelous polyphonic new novel is an estrogen-and-booze-fueled romp - Hard Core Logo with chicks. The Fiddler is a Good Woman is an ode to a Canadian heroine like no other: the legendary DD, gateway lesbian and a semi-mythical creature, like a mermaid with fangs - a tiny foul-mouthed siren on a fiddle who leaves a wreckage of the broken-hearted in her wake."
Zsuzsi Gartner, author of Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
