Trumpet

By Jackie Kay,

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"Supremely humane.... Kay leaves us with a broad landscape of sweet tolerance and familial love." —The New York Times Book Review

In her starkly beautiful and wholly unexpected tale, Jackie Kay delves into the most intimate workings of the human heart and mind and offers a triumphant tale of loving…

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1 author picked Trumpet as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This novel broke my heart the first time I read it, as much as it thrilled me, and I wanted to step into the book and hug all of the main characters.

They felt so alive—through their pain and desperation, their anger—and it showed me how to weave a layered, complex plot with multiple points of view into a cohesive, meaningful, single story. It follows a jazz musician with a huge secret, one revealed only after his death, which threatens to destroy the family he’s made, on and off the stage.

I love a good family saga, especially one dealing…

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