ASIN: B00F4G4T2U
Publisher: Linda Bartnik
Pages: 252
This moving historical novel explores the intertwined lives of three musicians over one generation, from 1960 to the present. The novel’s time frame propels the reader into a period of change in American culture that was profound and often painful. The three main characters are Jill Stewart, music teacher, Malik Shakur and Mike Jarrett, jazz musicians. The first two attend college together -- one a naïve young education student, the other her confused gay friend. The third, a driven and talented young musician, is student of the first. As years fly by, the three lives merge and diverge, tied together by the love and performance of jazz and the slow evolution of a song, Jill’s Song, written for the female friend and teacher. The story begins in Virginia, moves from there to Indiana University and the University of California-Berkeley, New Orleans, San Francisco and Berlin. Each ...
