City of Refuge (39 page)
SJ dug two nails out of his pocket and set them between his teeth. Then he looked down at Wesley. “It’s straight?” he said.
Wesley nodded.
“Good,” SJ said. “Hand me that hammer.”
TOM PIAZZA
is the author of the post-Katrina classic
Why New Orleans Matters,
the Faulkner Society Award–winning novel
My Cold War,
and the widely acclaimed short-story collection
Blues and Trouble,
which won the James Michener Award for Fiction. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is also well known as a writer on American music; in 2004 he won a Grammy Award for his album notes for
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues: A Musical Journey,
and he is a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Tom Piazza lives in New Orleans.
www.tompiazza.com
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Why New Orleans Matters
My Cold War
Blues and Trouble
Understanding Jazz
True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass
Blues Up and Down: Jazz in Our Time
The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz
Setting the Tempo
(editor)
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
CITY OF REFUGE
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Mobipocket Reader July 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-169932-0
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