Publisher's Synopsis
""Muskrat Ramble" transports the reader to 1913 New Orleans just as the emerging hot jazz music scene first captured the hearts of music lovers in that city and elsewhere. Seamlessly threaded through Edward "Kid" Ory and his Original Creole Jazz Band's story are the themes of the tightening Jim Crow era, World War I and its aftermath of economic ills, political upheavals and epidemics, and the chances, choices, heartbreaks and ultimate decisions of women of all races ... at its heart, however, "Muskrat Ramble" is the saga of a young woman's unwavering devotion to the child she was forced to abandon at birth. "Muskrat Ramble" is the sequel to "A Sparrow Alone""--.
