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- catalog abstract ""This sweeping drama of intimately connected families --black, white, and Latino-- boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that is America. At its heart is Vidama̕ Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known. Her journey takes her from her affluent home to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where her father Billy Farrell now lives with his second family. Once a gifted jazz pianist, Billy lost two fingers in the Vietnam War and has since shut himself off from jazz. Vidama̕ struggles to bring her father back to the world of jazz. Her quest gives her a new understanding of family, particularly through her half-sisters Fawn, a lonely young poet plagued with a secret, and Cookie, a sassy, streetsmart homegirl who happens to be "white." And when Vidama̕ becomes involved with a young African-American jazz saxophonist, she is forced to explore her own complex roots, along with the dizzying contradictions of race etched in the American psyche"--Publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b12982699.
- catalog coverage "Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""This sweeping drama of intimately connected families --black, white, and Latino-- boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that is America. At its heart is Vidama̕ Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known. Her journey takes her from her affluent home to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where her father Billy Farrell now lives with his second family. Once a gifted jazz pianist, Billy lost two fingers in the Vietnam War and has since shut himself off from jazz. Vidama̕ struggles to bring her father back to the world of jazz. Her quest gives her a new understanding of family, particularly through her half-sisters Fawn, a lonely young poet plagued with a secret, and Cookie, a sassy, streetsmart homegirl who happens to be "white." And when Vidama̕ becomes involved with a young African-American jazz saxophonist, she is forced to explore her own complex roots, along with the dizzying contradictions of race etched in the American psyche"--Publisher's description.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 638 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0374223114 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Birthfathers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Irish Americans Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Jazz musicians Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3572.E34 N6 2003".
- catalog subject "Puerto Ricans Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Race relations Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Stepfamilies Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Veterans Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Young women Fiction.".
- catalog title "No matter how much you promise to cook or pay the rent you blew it cauze Bill Bailey ain't never coming home again / Edgardo Vega Yunqué.".
- catalog type "Bildungsromans. gsafd".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "Musical fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Musical fiction.".
- catalog type "text".