The Palace Blues

It is the age of bathtub gin, jazz--and lines. Lines not to be crossed, and certainly not by women.

Ladies sing the blues at The Palace and the rebellious, resourceful Frankie admires the cross-dressing Jean Bailey from afar. Running from her family's oppressive pressure to marry, Frankie abandons her safe, white life in Chicago and follows the blues singer instead. At first it is merely an adventure of her star struck heart.

But the railroad yards, good times, riverboats and bum times lead Frankie on a remarkable journey between the sterile choices of her family and a reckless, daring life that at least offers a kind of freedom for a girl like her. Or is there another choice, one beyond the blues?


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Spinsters Ink Books
Published: 10/28/2014
ISBN: 9781935226741
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.70d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist