A sweeping love story about how long-buried family secrets devastate the marriage of a brilliant musician and his swife. Homeless L.J. Tillman is a jazz saxophonist whose life has been torn apart. When the painful secret that L.J. had kept all his li...
The Essence-bestselling author of More Than You Know “has crafted a post-Katrina New Orleans from a fumy cloud of sad jazz and Creole spices” (Publishers Weekly). When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, chef and widower Simon Fortier know...
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 rew...
“A beautiful and triumphant novel in which a talented woman works to reconcile her sense of family loyalty with her fidelity to her own considerable gifts.” -- Foreword Review, starred reviewBrilliantly talented Celia DeMille is a nineteenth-cen...