Jazz Romance From a young bride-to-be struggling

From a young bride-to-be struggling to accept her sexuality

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Jazz Romance From a young bride-to-be strugglingIn the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle aged door to door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joes wife, Violet, attacks the girls corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life. Softcover