Wonderful feels like this / Sara Lövestam ; translated from the Swedish by Laura A. Wideburg.
For Steffi, going to school every day is an exercise in survival. She's never fit in with any of the groups at school, and she's viciously teased by the other girls in her class. The only way she escapes is through her music-- especially jazz music. When Steffi hears her favorite jazz song playing through an open window of a retirement home on her walk home from school, she decides to go in and introduce herself. The old man playing her favorite song is Alvar. When Alvar was a teenager in World War II Sweden, he dreamed of being in a real jazz band. Then and now, Alvar's escape is music-- especially jazz music. Through their unconventional but powerful friendship, Steffi comes to realize that she won't always be stuck and lonely in her town. She can go to music school in Stockholm. She can be a real musician. She can be a jitterbug, just like Alvar. But how can Steffi convince her parents to let her go to Stockholm to audition? And how is it that Steff''s school, the retirement home, the music, and even Steffi's worst bully are somehow all connected to Alvar? Can it be that the people least like us are the ones we need to help us tell our own stories?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250095237 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1250095239 (hardback)
- Physical Description: 305 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2017.
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General Note: | "Originally published in Sweden in 2013 as Hjarta av jazz by Piratforlaget [Stockholm]"-- Title page verso. |
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Genre: | Psychological fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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