~ Blues Diva ~ Crazy for Tin Pan Alley songs and Broadway musicals, Bayla’s favorite were blues, though she could never say where she first heard them. Maybe the wail and words penetrated thin walls of tiny apartments in her tenement building. Or maybe during August’s stifling heat, the sounds oozed out of an open window from a record player, or a radio beckoning, awakening something inside her. Or maybe they were there, before she knew what they were. Blues got inside her, and stayed. By …
Novel
The Artfulness of Women – a forthcoming novel by Naomi Weiss
~ Synopsis ~ From a harrowing journey out of Eastern Europe in the early 1900’s to the tenements of Depression-era New York City. From a Victorian mansion in a Pennsylvania steel town to Tin Pan Alley. From singing the blues in a speakeasy to a lead role on Broadway. The Artfulness of Women explores the talent, sexuality, and long-held family secrets passed down to three generations of women determined to follow their true passions as their lives are touched by World War II, civil …