Then See If I Care

David Crittendon's historic blues novella THEN SEE IF I CARE: A Story About Bessie Smith makes you feel her yearning down to your bones. This is no low-down foot-dragging dirge. With prose that rings true to African American idiom yet resounds with Crittendon's singular poetic voice THEN SEE IF I CARE is by turns defiant bawdy mocking starkly bitter and jubilant initiating us into an encounter with the woman behind the legend.