G348 Book Review of Last Night at the blue angel by Rebecca Rotert
Name of Book: Last Night at the Blue Angel Author: Rebecca Rotert ISBN: 978-0-06-231528-1 Publisher: William Morrow Type of book: Kansas, 1950s, 1965, Chicago, mother/daughter relationship, nuclear war, survival, anxiety, singing, jazz, performance, talent, experimenting with sex and sexuality, rags to riches, friendships, misfit family Year it was published: 2014 Summary: Set against the turbulence of 1960s Chicago, a city in transformation and its legendary jazz scene, Last Night at the Blue Angel is a lush and immensely heartfelt mother-daughter tale about a talented but troubled singer relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter. It is the early 1960s, and Chicago is teeming with the tensions of the day segregation, sexual experimentation, the Cold War and Vietnam but it is also home to some of the country's most influential jazz. Naomi Hill, a singer at the Blue Angel club, has been poised on the brink of stardom for nearly ten years. But when her...