Review
Grace Paley Author of "Just As I Thought"Two intransigent old women, a couple of gentrified Brooklyn brownstones generations past Brown Girl, Brownstones, a son -- a jazz musician -- driven in those years to Paris, a lovely French-speaking grandson at his grandfather's pianola, other voices, lives, four generations looking at one another. A solid stubborn?beautiful?book. ?
Synopsis
Fifty years after jazz pianist Sonny-Rett Payne fled family disapproval in the U.S. for life as a superstar in Paris, his eight-year-old grandson returns to Sonny-Rett's old Brooklyn neighborhood to attend a memorial concert in his honor.