What happens when a middle-aged, black Memphis bar manager hires a
school-age white waitress who falls for him? Patchett's magical
storytelling evokes a world of smokey jazz dives where the struggle
to do the right thing is not always easy. Bar manager John, a
former jazz musician, is a sympathetic character, torn between his
attraction to young Fay and his desire to protect her from the
actions of her vulnerable, drug-addict brother. his paternal
concern is emphasized in an imaginative sequence of scenes in which
he reconstructs Fay's dead father's life; the counterpoint to this
is his relationship with his own absent son. This moving,
beautifully told novel avoids sugary sentimentality. A must for
anyone who enjoyed Patchett's Orange Prize-nominated The Magician's
Assistant. (Kirkus UK)
John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. When his son is taken away to Miami by his mother, Nickel is left with nothing but Muddy’s, the Memphis blues bar that he manages. Then he hires Fay Taft, a young white waitress from east Tennessee who has a volatile brother, Carl, in tow. They spell nothing but trouble for Nickel. Fay stirs up both romantic and paternal impulses in him and Carl is clearly a no-good.
But Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft, Fay and Carl’s dead father, and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met but whose place he has taken.
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