![]() ![]() Jacinda Townsend’s remarkable first novel is a coming-of-age story made at once gripping and poignant by the wild energy of the Jazz Era and the stark realities of segregation. Meanwhile, Caroline sinks into the quiet anguish of a Black woman in a backwards country, where her ambitions and desires only slip further out of reach. But fortunes can turn fast in the city-young talent means tough competition, and for Audrey failure is always one step away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Audrey flirts with love and takes the stage at the Apollo, with its fast-dancing crowds and blinding lights. And in New York City the music never stops. That is, until chance intervenes and a booking agent offers Audrey a ticket to join the booming jazz scene in Harlem-an offer she can’t resist, not even for Caroline. Her best friend, Caroline, daydreams about Hollywood stardom, but both girls feel destined to languish in a slow-moving stopover town in Montgomery County. Fourteen-year-old Audrey Martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she’ll never get out of Kentucky-but when her fingers touch the piano keys, the whole church trembles. ![]()
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