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What is Tiger Rag about?

The acclaimed author of *Veronica* and *A Trip to the Stars* returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history.New Orleans, 1900.** **The virtuoso cornet player Charles “Buddy” Bolden invents jazz, but after a life consumed by tragedy, the groundbreaking sound of his horn vanishes with him. Rumors persist, though, that Bolden recorded a phonograph cylinder, and over the course of a century it evolves into the elusive holy grail of jazz.Florida, the present day. Dr. Ruby Cardillo’s life is falling apart. Her husband, a prominent cardiologist, has left her for a twenty-six-year-old. Her daughter, Devon, a once promising jazz pianist, has recently finished an enforced stint picking up trash along the interstate after a drug conviction. Ruby’s estranged mother has just died, but not before conjuring up ghosts that Ruby thought she had put behind her long ago. After a long career as a well-respected anesthesiologist, Ruby suddenly jumps the tracks, forgetting to eat and sleep, indulging her every whim, wearing only purple, consuming only bottles of 1988 Château Latour.Then Ruby enlists Devon to accompany her on an impulsive road trip to New York, and

Author

Christopher, Nicholas

Publisher

The Dial Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

Rating

3.58 / 5 (194 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13