Saint Monkey -- Jacinda Townsend, Paperback
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. And in New York City the music never stops. Audrey flirts with love and takes the stage at the Apollo, with its fast-dancing crowds and blinding lights. But fortunes can turn fast in the city--young talent means tough competition, and for Audrey failure is always one step away. 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.
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. Marrying musical prose with lyric vernacular, Saint Monkey delivers a stirring portrait of American storytelling and marks the appearance of an auspicious new voice in literary fiction.
Author: Jacinda Townsend
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/02/2015
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780393350821
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/29/2015 pg. 28
Product Tags:
African American & Black, Bildungsromans, Coming of Age, Fiction, Historical, Jacinda Townsend, Paperback, Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General, W. W. Norton & CompanyContact form
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