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Sing for me [large type] / Karen Halvorsen Schrek [sic]

by Schreck, Karen Halvorsen, 1962-

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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2014.

Women jazz singers -- Fiction.

Faith -- Fiction.

9781410470614 (lg. print : hardcover)

141047061X (lg. print : hardcover)

Thorndike Press large print clean reads.

463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Large print edition.

Chicago, 1937. Raised in the Danish Baptist Church, Rose Sorensen knows it's wrong to sing worldly songs. But Rose still yearns for those she hears on the radio -- "Cheek to Cheek," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" -- and sings them when no one is around. One day, Rose's cousin takes her to Calliope's, a jazz club, where she discovers an exciting world she never knew existed. Here, blacks and whites mingle, brought together by their shared love of music. And though Rose worries it's wrong -- her parents already have a stable husband in mind for her -- she can't stop thinking about the African American pianist of the Chess Men, Theo Chastain. When Rose returns to the jazz club, she is offered the role of singer for the Chess Men. The job would provide money to care for her sister, Sophy, who has cerebral palsy -- but at what cost? As Rose gets to know Theo, their fledgling relationship faces prejudices she never imagined. And as she struggles to balance the dream world of Calliope's with her cold, hard reality, she also wrestles with God's call for her life. Can she be a jazz singer? Or will her faith suffer because of her worldly ways?

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