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BLUES DANCING
Author:
McKinney-Whetstone,Diane
Paperback - Trade
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ISBN: #0688177891
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| From Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the beloved author of the highly acclaimed novels Tumbling and Tempest Rising, comes Blues Dancing, a work that fuses past and present, character and place with a transfixing lyricism that shimmers in its detail. A richly spun story of love, passion, betrayal, and redemption. Blues Dancing grapples with the meaning of faith, forgiveness, and familial bonds, in a narrative that moves seamlessly between the Philadelphia of contemporary times and the city in the early 1970s.
Verdi, the pampered daughter of a prosperous southern preacher, comes to Philadelphia in the seventies to enroll at the university and is immediately drawn to Johnson, a university student as well, though also a city boy, poor and militant. Their differences seal their hearts to each other until Johnson teaches her the one thing that will change her life forever—how to love heroin. Enter Rowe, a conservative professor who rescues Verdi drom her ugly addiction even as he falls in love with her, leaving his sophisticated wife for this very confused southern girl.
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