Escape from Billy's Bar-B-Que

By Joanne Brasil

Recent high school graduate Cecelia O'Malley leaves her home in Phoebus, VA, and returns to her Irish roots in South Boston. From there she journeys to Central Square in Cambridge, and finally to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500307572
• ISBN13: 9781500307578
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"

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Joanne Brasil's novel tells the story of the author's move from the south to Boston and her bittersweet relationship with a talented Brazilian music student. The musician is presumably based at least in part on the author's late husband, Victor Brasil (the composer of "Creek" aka "Arroyo", recorded by Airto Moreira, and other popular Brazilian jazz pieces), to whom the novel is dedicated.The narrator, a young white woman, tries to understand the different facets of racism and segregation in the novel's three settings: her home in the south, Boston, and Brazil. The writing is plain and direct; the narrator's voice is almost childlike and naive, but the story accumulates weight through her insights, and the book is moving without being overly dramatic. Did she write another novel, or any published stories?