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400 pages, Paperback
First published April 16, 2019
Roxanne Granville is the darling heir of Empire Pictures.
"Me? I'm fit for nothing."
"You're a girl. You just need to get married."
"Don't be stupid."
...Never forget that you are Roxanne Granville, named for the romantic heroine of a great play - I forbid myself the luxury of tears.So she sets off on her own - and soon finds that the expectations of women of that time were far below what she expected to find in the working world.
Let me put it this way: I didn't have to drop any name but my own."Roxanne becomes a talent agent - often funneling in disguised work of those accused of being communist in the Red Scare.
"Come see me next week."Along the way, she meets Terrance - a man who is good, strong and has a wonderful soul. But there is one problem society sees...he's black and she's white.
"Do you mean it?"
"I do. Just don't wear red."
"This isn't a goddamn movie, Roxanne...Shit like that will get you killed. It sure as hell get me killed."Soon it feels like she is juggling a million different things and one wrong move could send everything spiraling to the ground.
While a bit slow to start, once the story got moving it carried me along easily. I did not expect this was going to go where it did & quite enjoyed the majority of it. Unfortunately, at the end the momentum really drops off. It took too long to wrap things up, & when it finally did so it kinda fell flat. The resolutions to certain plot points weren't all that satisfying, & the resolution of the major plot line had lost steam by the time it wrapped. Had things been tightened up just a bit here & there, this would have been a great read. As it is though, it's mostly just fine, although the mid-section moves along quite well & I really enjoyed that bit, which is of course the majority of the read, while I was in it. That said, I do think this would translate very well onto the big screen, & I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that occur.
Currently undecided on 2 or 3 stars for this.