Wild Women and the Blues: A Fascinating and Innovative Novel of Historical Fiction
Through linked stories of an ambitious 1920’s chorus girl and a grieving modern-day film student, award-winning author and journalist Denny S. Bryce brings jazz age Chicago’s Black Renaissance to vibrant life in this stirring, impeccably researched novel about loss, forgiveness, and the limitations—and surprises—of love.
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Loved learning about the Jazz age. Costumes, music, films, clubs, culture. Some of the characters and relationships were so intriguing. Would have loved more depth of n some
Of the relationship development
I was so excited to read this book and almost chose for my book club… I’m so glad I didn’t. It was, at times, painful to read. The main character, Honoree, starts out as this strong female and then you find out she’s a bit mean, annoyingly starstruck, and foolish! Also the ending was stupid. It was rushed and didn’t make sense.
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This story begins with Sawyer Hayes visiting centenarian Honoree Dalcour on a chicago nursing home. She was a 1920s Chicago cabaret dancer who is now in a nursing home being paid for by Sawyer's grandmother. Sawyer plans to interview her to complete his film thesis.
1920s Honoree finds love in Ezekiel Bailey in her early teens but he and his family suddenly move away. Three years later he returns to Chicago but not...read more
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