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A sensational debut novel of two women elevated in hardship, separated by fortune, and reunited through tragedy. Fourteen-year-old Audrey Martin, with her Poindexter eyeglasses and her brain humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, understands she'll never get out of Kentucky - however when her fingers touch the piano keys, the whole chapel trembles. Her best ally, Caroline, daydreams about Hollywood stardom, but both women feel destined to languish in a slow-moving stopover town in Montgomery Region. That's, until chance intervenes and a arranging agent offers Audrey a ticket to become listed on the flourishing jazz scene in Harlem - an offer she can't resist, not even for Caroline. And in NEW YORK the music never can stop. Audrey flirts with love and will take the level at the Apollo, using its fast-dancing crowds and blinding lights. But fortunes can change fast in the city - young expertise means challenging competition, as well as for Audrey failure is usually one step away. In the meantime, Caroline sinks in to the quiet anguish of an Black girl in a backwards country, where her ambitions and wishes only slip further out of reach. Jacinda Townsend's amazing first novel is a coming-of-age storyline made at once gripping and poignant by the outdoors energy of the Jazz Age and the stark realities of segregation. Marrying musical prose with lyric vernacular, Saint Monkey delivers a stirring portrait of North american storytelling and represents the appearance of your auspicious new words in literary fiction.
