Diddy Wah Diddy: A Beale Street Suite

Fiction. Music. DIDDY-WAH-DIDDY: A BEALE STREET SUITE is a crazy-quilt mosaic about a near-mythical place located concretely in Memphis Tennessee and abstractly somewhere on the road between Rapture and Perdition. The novel is a-historic preferring the beautiful lie to the truth as plain as a mud fence. The novel if we can call it a novel (and we can) is peopled with musicians conmen strippers magi foreigners storytellers ghosts villains heroes fairy-tale sons of Adam like Elvis and Santa Claus and the imps of the perverse. Told in myriad ways including short stories plays and poems the song Diddy Wah Diddy moves from Creation to Revelation and in the end emerges from the smoke and circus mirrors to stand naked under the bright bluesy Beale Street sun.