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Sing Her Name

A Novel

by Rosalyn Story
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"A beautiful and triumphant novel in which a talented woman works to reconcile her sense of family loyalty with her fidelity to her own considerable gifts." —Foreword Review, starred review
Brilliantly talented Celia DeMille is a nineteenth-century concert artist who has garnered fame and sung all over the world. But prejudice bars her from achieving her place in history as one of the world's greatest singers, and she dies in poverty and obscurity.
In twenty-first-century New Orleans, Eden Malveaux, a thirty-something waitress with a beautiful but untutored voice, is the sole guardian of her seventeen-year-old brother. Eden struggled for years to make ends meet and protect her wayward brother. After a hurricane displaces them to New York City, Eden seeks safe refuge—not only from the ensuing flood, but also to hide her brother from the law.
When Eden receives a box containing a hundred-year-old scrapbook and a mysterious and valuable gold pendant necklace belonging to Celia DeMille, her life is forever altered. As Eden explores the artifacts of Celia DeMille's extraordinary life, curiosity grows into obsession, then into an inspiration that propels Eden into a world she never dreamed. But just as she is poised to make her mark on the world stage, her brother's dangerous choices catch up with them. To face the promise of her future, Eden must first reconcile years of regrets and leave behind the guilt of the past—and perhaps even the brother she loves.
"Uplifting . . . Story reveals a knack for natural dialogue and writes movingly, both about music and the devastation caused by Katrina." —The Dallas Morning News
"This truly is a novel that sings." —Booklist

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    September 20, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781572848504

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      • ISBN: 9781572848504
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    • English

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    • Booklist

      January 1, 2022
      Story (Wading Home, 2010) tells the tales of two African American female singers with nearly a century between them. Celia, based on the real-life Sissieretta Jones, is an operatic phenomenon in New Orleans in the early 1900s but fades into obscurity due to the erasure of racism. Eden is a musically gifted Hurricane Katrina refugee struggling to stay atop of bills and family needs in New York City. The past and present converge when Eden comes upon a box of Celia's mementos and embarks on her own musical journey while trying to revive appreciation for Celia's forgotten accomplishments. Readers may wish for more time in Celia's world and less focus on Eden's backstory. Nonetheless, Story's background as a musician and nonfiction writer about African American opera (And So I Sing: African American Divas of Opera and Concert, 2000) primes her to tell this musical tale of the ghosts of wronged artists and the burdens they pass on, the legacy of place, and how we can forgive others and move on, with or without them. This truly is a novel that sings.

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