Lady's Time Author:Alan V. Hewat From the back cover: — "Like the music it celebrates, Lady's Time distills history, circumstance and the human condition into an evocative work of suffering, triumph and survival." - San Francisco Chronicle — Lady Winslow, the daughter of a New Orleans washerwoman and a Cajun aristocrat, has a special relation to time for two reasons: her friendsh... more »ip with the old voodoo woman Pantanouche, and her identity with her music. She gets her music - her time - as a child when she wakes from a dream and walks into the parlor where her mother's beau, Brick the tickler, is playing the piano. She places her hands on top of his and rides them as they ride the keyboard. Brick becomes her teacher and helps her find the sunshine music, the ragtime, which later she will play up North for her livelihood.
But there is a shadow over Lady's melodic life in the thick, spirit-filled air of New Orleans - a threat from her father, Vraicoeur. When the race laws lumped the Cajuns together with all the other "coloreds", his mind cracked, and now he wants to eradicate his blood entirely, so he's looking for Lady, his only child...
"Haunting...A powerful story that builds slowly, moving back and forth in time, changing points of view, shifting between decadent New Orleans and clean, white New England." - The Philadelphia Inquirer« less