About Wild Women & the Blues
In a stirring and impeccably researched novel of Jazz-age Chicago in all its vibrant life, two stories intertwine nearly a hundred years apart, as a chorus girl and a film student deal with loss, forgiveness, and love…in all its joy, sadness, and imperfections.
“Why would I talk to you about my life? I don’t know you, and even if I did, I don’t tell my story to just any boy with long hair, who probably smokes weed.You wanna hear about me. You gotta tell me something about you. To make this worth my while.”
My Review
Wild Women and the Blues is an amazing book. Denny Bryce did a great job with this dual storyline. In the present day timeline, Sawyer Hayes finds an old reel with features Honoree Delacour. Sawyer is creating a documentary thesis on the legendary Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. His research leads him to Honoree, an elderly woman who used to be a dancer in 1920s Chicago.
In the 1920s timeline, Honoree is a sharecropper’s daughter who is “accustomed to hard work and hard time,” she now she is climbing that ladder to success as a dancer at the Dreamland Cafe. She is a strong heroine and a well-crafted character.
The writing is very strong, and the plot was compelling and filled with twists and turns. This book kept me turning that pages, and I am looking forward to more books from Denny Bryce.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Kensington Books and Net Galley. All opinions are my own.
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