New York: Scribner, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set against the backdrop of contemporary Brooklyn, New York and Paris and of those cities in the late 1940's, this is a story of family estrangement, love and hope for the future, when the young grandson of a great jazz pianist, an ex-patriot who lived and died in Paris, comes to the US for the first time and meets both sides of his warring family. A warm and appealing book. ISBN: 0-684-872838.