Chapter Two Blues Diva Bayla could never say when she first heard the blues. Perhaps their wail and words penetrated thin apartment walls in her tenement building overrun with German and Hungarian immigrants. Or maybe during Augusts' stifling heat, the deep soulful sounds of the blues oozed from a radio or a record player out an opened window. Blues came to her gentle and easy with a certainty in their lingering, and a mounting up that spoke to her the more …
Novel
The Artfulness of Women – a forthcoming novel by Naomi Weiss
~ Synopsis ~ From one woman’s epic journey out of Eastern Europe in 1904, to New York City's tenement life in the 30's, to a Victorian mansion in a Pennsylvania steel town and stardom in the 70's, The Artfulness of Women explores how each of her descendants refuses to compromise her childhood dream as their talent, sexuality and long-held family secrets are challenged by political, racial and social upheaval through the generations from World War II, racial prejudice, the heyday of the women’s …