02208cam a2200361 i 4500 1164892720 TxAuBib 20210629120000.0 210324s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781496730084 paperback 1496730089 paperback (OCoLC)1243161127 CMI eng rda CMI JAS OCLCO OCO ILC UOK TxAuBib rda Bryce, Denny S, author. Wild women and the blues / Denny S. Bryce. New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp, [2021] ©2021. 377 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes a reading group guide. In an award-winning debut novel, a sharecropper's daughter navigates celebrity encounters, bootlegging and gangster activities in Jazz Age Chicago before sharing her story with a grieving film student nearly a century later. 1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour, a sharecropper's daughter, is willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the top. She's socializing with celebrities, but with the temptations of bootleg whiskey, gambling, and gangsters a young woman driven by ambition might risk more than she can stand to lose. 2015: Film student Sawyer Hayes arrives at the bedside of 110-year-old Honoree Dalcour. He has rested all his hope on this frail but formidable woman, the only living link to the legendary Oscar Micheaux. If she can fill in the blanks in his research, perhaps he can complete his thesis and begin a new chapter in his life. As Honoree reveals her past and her secrets, Sawyer fights tooth and nail to keep his. -- adapted from back cover. 20210629. African Americans Fiction. Women dancers Fiction. Nightclubs Fiction. Nineteen twenties Fiction. Chicago (Ill) Fiction. Historical fiction. TXKIP