Last Night at the Blue Angel
- Author: Rebecca Rotert
- Narrator: Caitlin Davies
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 9:42:39
Synopsis
Set against the turbulence of 1960s Chicago—a city in transformation—and its legendary jazz scene, Last Night at the Blue Angel is a lush and immensely heartfelt mother-daughter tale about a talented but troubled singer’s relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter.
It is the early 1960s, and Chicago is teeming with the tensions of the day—segregation, sexual experimentation, the Cold War and Vietnam—but it is also home to some of the country’s most influential jazz. Naomi Hill, a singer at the Blue Angel club, has been poised on the brink of stardom for nearly ten years. But when her big break, the cover of Look magazine, finally arrives, it carries with it an enormous personal cost. Sensual and magnetic, Naomi is a fiercely ambitious yet self-destructive woman whose charms tend to hurt those around her, and no one knows this better than her daughter, Sophia.
As the only child of a single mother growing up in an adult world, Sophia is wise beyond her years, a casualty of her mother’s desperate struggle for fame and adoration. Unsettled by her home life, she harbors a terrible fear that her world could disappear at any moment, and compulsively maintains a list of everyday objects she might need to reinvent should nuclear catastrophe strike. Her only constant is the colorful and unconventional family that surrounds her and her mother, particularly the photographer, Jim, who is Sophia’s best friend, surrogate father, and protector—but Jim is also deeply in love with Naomi.
Weaving between the perspectives of Sophia and Naomi, Last Night at the Blue Angel is a poignant and unforgettable story about what happens when our passion for the life we want is at sharp odds with the life we have. Part stylish period piece, part heartbreaking family drama, it’s a novel rife with revelations, a vivid and propulsive page-turner—and the major debut of an extraordinary new writer.
Chapters
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021 Chapter 19
Duration: 19min -
022 Chapter 20
Duration: 15min -
023 Chapter 21
Duration: 13min -
024 Chapter 22
Duration: 10min -
025 Chapter 23
Duration: 14min -
026 Chapter 24
Duration: 04min -
027 Chapter 25
Duration: 07min -
028 Chapter 26
Duration: 14min -
029 Chapter 27
Duration: 07min -
030 Chapter 28
Duration: 07min -
031 Chapter 29
Duration: 08min -
032 Chapter 30
Duration: 06min -
033 Chapter 31
Duration: 10min -
034 Chapter 32
Duration: 19min -
035 Chapter 33
Duration: 14min -
036 Chapter 34
Duration: 12min -
037 Chapter 35
Duration: 12min -
038 Chapter 36
Duration: 12min -
039 Chapter 37
Duration: 09min -
040 Chapter 38
Duration: 04min