A Drop of Patience Binding:Paperback September 2020

September 2020

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE

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A Drop of Patience Binding:Paperback September 2020One of the great jazz novels of any era, A Drop of Patience tells the story of a blind horn player's journey through the themes of race, blindness, and music. At the age of five, Ludlow Washington is given up by his parents to a brutal white run state institution for blind African American children, where everyone is taught music the only trade by which they are expected to make a living. Ludlow is a prodigy on the horn and at fifteen is "purchased"