In The Blood

<p>The trouble with K.C. Brown's dream of playing alto sax for a local jazz band is that she's a nineteen-year-old white girl the band members are middle-aged black men the year is 1948 and they all live in a racially divided town in Iowa.</p><p> To succeed she and the band must overcome resistance from both sides of the color barrier and accept that ambition often comes with loss.</p><p> In the Blood explores the cultural sexual generational and economic issues in post-World War II America framed in the context of a friendship and understanding that develops between K.C. and the band's ailing trombonist Freddie Ross.</p><p>This book is about music it's about cultural shifts and it's about life. In the Blood is smartly written with every musical term and description spot-on.</p><p>-Diane Thayer music educator</p><p> In the Blood is a tour de force....  </p><p>-Donald Schneider Midwest Book Reviews</p>