![]() ![]() I couldn’t let him do it.īut just then the Boots yanked wide the Coup’s door, its chain singing. He never once look in the direction of the toilets, and I understood. When their hard gazes forced his away, he look at the tiled floor. Hiero goes out the morning after a recording session and is arrested while Sid is in the bathroom: ![]() Hiero is arrested in the first chapter and there’s a strong hint at why Sid blames himself, though it’s not made explicit until later. ![]() It implies a certain mystery, but there’s not much here that’s mysterious. I included the Goodreads summary because I think it contributed to my relatively low opinion of this book. In Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan weaves the horror of betrayal, the burden of loyalty and the possibility that, if you don’t tell your story, someone else might tell it for you. Persuaded by his old friend Chip, Sid discovers there’s more to the journey than he thought when Chip shares a mysterious letter, bringing to the surface secrets buried since Hiero’s fate was settled. And he is black.įifty years later, Sid, Hiero’s bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. It has some pacing problems, but the main story has a lot of potential. Like Washington Black, Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues is a mix of highs and lows. ![]()
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