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Sep 20, 2022 | ISBN 9780593316443 PREORDER
Sep 20, 2022 | ISBN 9780593316450 PREORDER
Sep 20, 2022 | 720 Minutes PREORDER
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Sep 20, 2022 | ISBN 9780593316443
Sep 20, 2022 | ISBN 9780593316450
Sep 20, 2022 | ISBN 9780593628621
720 Minutes
Passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, jazz and soul: a provocative debut novel about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, told by the women who love Circus Palmer—trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man—as they ultimately discover the power of their own voices.It’s 2013, and Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man, lives for his music and refuses to be tied down. Before a gig in Miami, he learns that the woman who is secretly closest to his heart, the free-spirited drummer Maggie, is pregnant by him. Instead of facing the necessary conversation, Circus flees, setting off a chain of interlocking revelations from the various women in his life. Most notable among them is his teenage daughter, Koko, who idolizes him and is awakening to her own sexuality even as her mentally fragile mother struggles to overcome her long-failed marriage and rejection by Circus. Delivering a lush orchestration of diverse female voices, Warrell spins a provocative, soulful, and gripping story of passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, and, finally, hope and reconciliation, in answer to the age-old question: how do we find belonging when love is unrequited?
LAURA WARRELL is a contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Tin House Writers’ Workshop, and is a graduate of the creative writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, The Rumpus, Salon, and Los Angeles Review… More about Laura Warrell
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