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Terry Roberts

    Terry Roberts è profondamente radicato nella cultura appalachiana della Carolina del Nord occidentale, una regione che funge costantemente da sfondo per le sue evocative narrazioni. La sua scrittura attinge a una ricca storia familiare, esplorando le intersezioni tra fede e folklore all'interno delle comunità montane. Roberts crea magistralmente storie che catturano lo spirito unico e l'eredità duratura della regione, offrendo ai lettori uno sguardo autentico e avvincente sulla sua anima.

    The Sky Club
    • The Sky Club

      • 432pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      “When I’m dead and buried...you get the hell out of here...Make a life somewhere else...a life that I can’t even imagine.” Jo Salter, a woman from the North Carolina mountains, sets about constructing a new life for herself in Asheville in the wake of her mother’s death. A life that no one—including her mother—could have imagined. Jo has a gift. She is a mathematical prodigy—a woman who sees and thinks in numbers. She secures a job as a teller at Central Bank & Trust, where she recreates herself as a modern woman and rises through the professional ranks. While working at the bank, Jo becomes fascinated by Levi Arrowood, the dark and mysterious manager of the Sky Club, an infamous speakeasy and jazz club on the mountainside above town. When the Great Depression brings Central Bank & Trust down in a seismic crash, Jo is forced to find a new home and job. She finds both at the Sky Club, where she strikes a partnership with the alluring Arrowood as she is drawn deeper into a glamorous and precarious life of bootlegging, jazz, and love.The Sky Club is the story of money, greed, and life after the crash from the eyes of one remarkable woman as she creates her own imagined life.

      The Sky Club2022
      4,4