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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel | Laura Warrell
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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 Palmertrumpet player and old-school ladies manas they ultimately discover the power of their own voices. In an exceptional debut, Warrell turns love, or at least the love life of musician Circus Palmer, into the proverbial jazz club: dark and sexy, freeing and frightening, ecstatic and lonely.... A modern masterpiece. Jason Reynolds, best-selling author of Look Both Ways Its 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?
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Bookpearl
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Taking a dive back into this beauty, not sure where it‘s headed but I‘m sure the author will lead me there soon! #sweetsoftplentyrhythm #laurawarrell #sundayread

Bookwormjillk I have that on my shelf. I look forward to your review. 12mo
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bookish_wookish
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So i ran out of time with this one from the library. Its a really slow read and i have no idea where the story is going if anywhere. Ill have to come back to this one!

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MicheleinPhilly
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Won this #ARC from @bookriot and Random House via Pantheon Books. Sounds very intriguing. #bookmail

BarbaraBB Great cover too! 2y
squirrelbrain Yay for winning books! 2y
DivineDiana Congratulations! 👏🏻📚❤️ How are you feeling? 2y
MicheleinPhilly @DivineDiana Feeling better but still rather sluggish. I don‘t know if it‘s the aftereffects of Nyquil or my body being mad that I worked all week. 🤷🏻‍♀️ But I‘m officially negative now so I‘ll take it! 2y
DivineDiana @MicheleinPhilly Glad to hear that you are feeling better! You are a warrior! Working all week! 💪🏻 2y
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