A Drop of Patience Binding:Paperback smells and tastes

smells and tastes

September 2020

A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors

intergenerational

" -- Shannon Chakraborty

A Drop of Patience Binding:Paperback smells and tastesOne of the great jazz novels of any era, A Drop of Patience tells the story of a blind horn player's journey through the themes of race, blindness, and music. At the age of five, Ludlow Washington is given up by his parents to a brutal white run state institution for blind African American children, where everyone is taught music the only trade by which they are expected to make a living. Ludlow is a prodigy on the horn and at fifteen is "purchased"