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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
174 kr
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Sing Her Name follows two musically gifted women whose lives overlap across the boundaries of time. This third novel by Rosalyn Story, whose critically acclaimed books treat the central role of Black people in American music, is her best and most rewarding yet. Beautiful and brilliantly talented Celia DeMille is a nineteenth-century concert artist who has garnered fame, sung all over the world, and amassed a fortune. But prejudice bars her from achieving her place in history as one of the world’s greatest singers, and she dies in poverty and obscurity.In 21st-century New Orleans, Eden Malveaux, a thirty-something waitress with a beautiful but untutored voice, is the sole guardian of her 17-year-old brother. Motherless for most of their lives, she has struggled for years to make ends meet as she fights to keep the promise she made to their dying father: to protect her wayward brother and raise him as if he were her own child. After a hurricane displaces them to New York City, Eden seeks safe refuge—not only from the ensuing flood, but also to hide her brother from the law, while she works to divert him from a path of crime, prison, or worse.Months into their New York stay, Eden’s estranged Great Aunt Julia summons her back to New Orleans for a brief visit, and the older woman gives Eden something that alters the course of her life: a box she found in the midst of flooded rubble containing a hundred-year-old scrapbook and a mysterious and valuable gold pendant necklace belonging to one of the greatest singers in history—Celia DeMille.Eden returns to New York, but as she explores the artifacts of Celia DeMille’s extraordinary life, curiosity grows into obsession, then into an inspiration that propels Eden into a world she never dreamed. With the help of new friends, and buoyed by the diva’s story, Eden’s new life in New York takes a dramatic turn toward unimagined success.But just as she is poised to make her mark on the world stage, her brother’s dangerous choices catch up with them, and Eden must confront buried secrets from her complicated childhood. To face the promise of her future, Eden must first reconcile years of regrets and leave behind the guilt of the past—and perhaps even the brother she loves.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
254 kr
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AN ACCLAIMED FIRST NOVEL OF LOVE, LOSS AND REDEMPTION ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK The sweet strains of a jazz saxophone wind beautifully through the rhythmic prose and elegantly crafted melodies of this debut novel from Rosalyn Story. A nine-year-old boy carefully bears a tiny infant through a furious thunderstorm. Sworn to hide the baby's origins, he delivers the nameless child safely to the doorstep of a family blissfully unaware of the drama being played outside their home. Decades later, L.J. Tillman has matured into a brilliant jazz saxophonist playing on the New York streets after the revelation of long-buried secrets has devastated his life and marriage. As the sensuous sounds of his horn fuse with the hard echoes of the streets, L.J. and his wife begin to peel away the twisting falsehoods of their lives in an attempt to rescue their relationship. An extraordinarily powerful first novel from a masterful pen.