04-29-2021, 01:12 PM
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Literature with a strong dash of mystery. I think. It's kind of an odd duck of a book. It starts of as a tale of two friends, one rich and one poor and they bond over old Jazz and blue records. One day the poor records the snippet of an old blues song while recording ambient noise in Washington Square Park in NYC. It becomes a quest to find the man who sang the song. Which becomes sort of a ghost story. Then it all ends tragically.
It was well written but a lot of the story, especially towards the end, is eluded to, rather than actually described so you need to put the ending together for yourself in order to figure out what actually happened. I feel I didn't get all the author was trying to say but I will seek out more of his books. It probably would have helped more if I had been a serious Jazz and blues aficionado.
Literature with a strong dash of mystery. I think. It's kind of an odd duck of a book. It starts of as a tale of two friends, one rich and one poor and they bond over old Jazz and blue records. One day the poor records the snippet of an old blues song while recording ambient noise in Washington Square Park in NYC. It becomes a quest to find the man who sang the song. Which becomes sort of a ghost story. Then it all ends tragically.
It was well written but a lot of the story, especially towards the end, is eluded to, rather than actually described so you need to put the ending together for yourself in order to figure out what actually happened. I feel I didn't get all the author was trying to say but I will seek out more of his books. It probably would have helped more if I had been a serious Jazz and blues aficionado.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm