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Whistling Women and Crowing Hens
Whistling Women and Crowing Hens | Melora Fern
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To escape her strait-laced overbearing sister, Birdie Stauffer auditions for the all-female Versatile Quintet, Chautauqua circuit's opening act. Through this train-traveling roadshow she experiences the tumultuous 1920's, a modern era of shocking flappers and smuggled whiskey, with the camaraderie of newfound friends. Her exceptional gift of concert whistling entertains more than songbirds as she gains national notoriety and she's soon entangled in two romantic relationships- one with a dapper circuit manager, the other her fellow pianist. Accompanied by four other musicians?a slang slinging flapper, a confident girl-next-door, a tight-lipped loner, and a virtuoso sapphic?and following a series of traumatic events, Birdie discovers even the best relationships can be filled with misunderstandings. As she learns to trust her intuition, she finds it may cost her love interests, her sister, and maybe even herself.
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“Author‘s grandmother inspires 1920s-era historical fiction novel on Chautauqua circuit.

After finding a box of mementos and learning that her grandmother, Verna Hintz Kurtz, traveled with the Versatile Quintet in the Swarthmore Chautauqua circuit as a trombone player and performance whistler in the 1920s, Melora Fern was inspired to write her debut novel, “Whistling Women and Crowing Hens.”

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