Ella: A Novel True including the American Composers Orchestra

including the American Composers Orchestra (When the Real Dragons Fly

and/or Defending against Disharmony

With burning passion and jabbing

Jade wants to speak

“An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance

Ella: A Novel True including the American Composers OrchestraIn the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of biographical fiction that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century. When fifteen year old Ella Fitzgeralds mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support herself and her family. When the law finally catches up,