New York: Ballantine, (1994). The second novel by the author of 'De Mojo Blues." Set in the days of Jim Crow, this is an "alternately playful and solemn tale [which] focuses on the love between Lucas Bodeen, a suave, piano-playing bluesman, and Melvira Dupree, a stubborn conjure woman. In 1919 they leave the Mississippi Delta for Memphis, on a 'hoodoo mission' to locate Melvira's elusive mother, but before finding her they're drawn to rollicking, jazz-infected Beale Street, a stopping point for many hopeful Southern blacks on their way north." (Publishers Weekly) 211 pp. ISBN: 0-345381033.