Description: One 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 out of the Home by a bandleader in the fictive Southern town of New Marsails.
By eighteen, he is married with a baby daughter, but as his reputation spreads, he seeks to grow musically, leaving his budding family for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in New York City. Navigating the worlds of music and race and women, Ludlow's career follows an arc towards collapse, a nervous breakdown, recovery, a long-delayed public recognition, only for him to finally abandon the spotlight and return to his roots and find solace in the black church.
A Drop of Patience is a brilliant portrayal of a jazz musician. It stands apart as an exemplary parable of African American history, of racial politics, and of musical creative genius.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Drop of Patience
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: African American / General, Literary, Coming of Age
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 8.6 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: William Melvin Kelley
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
