![]() ![]() But Archie Graves, her abusive boss, keeps her on a short leash, and she’s not sure she’ll ever escape the confines of his club, Miss Hattie’s. Back in 1925, Honoree is a vibrant young woman determined to dance onstage at Chicago’s famed Dreamland Cafe. With Miss Honoree ailing and ornery, though, it’s going to take a lot more work than Sawyer anticipated to unveil her story. But he needs Honoree Dalcour, a 110-year-old woman who spent time with Micheaux back in the 1920s, to fill in the blanks of his research. Sawyer lost over a year to prescription drug abuse after the traumatic death of his sister, Azizi, and he’s convinced that jump-starting his professional life will put the pieces back together-and maybe help him stop seeing Azizi’s ghost. It’s 2015, and Sawyer Hayes is desperate to finish his doctoral thesis on the legendary filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. ![]() The lives of an ambitious chorus girl in 1925 and a grieving film student in 2015 intersect in this debut novel. ![]()
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