Girl singer

By Mick Carlon

Subjects: Singers, Fiction, coming of age, Singers, fiction, Musicians, fiction, FICTION / African American / Historical, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Holocaust survivors, FICTION / Historical, Coming of age, Jazz, FICTION / Coming of Age, Fiction, Musicians, FICTION / Jewish

Description: "1938: eighteen-year-old Avery, aspiring singer, is heard by Lester "Pres" Young, Count Basie's tenor saxophonist. Pres recommends her to Basie, and Avery is whisked into the jazz life. Years later, with several hit records to her credit, Avery settles in Greenwich Village. But her life takes a sharp turn when she meets Karl, a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany"--