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Some people are afraid of silence. Nia Jamison is afraid of what happens when the music stops.

For three months, Nia has been taking the same corner table at Miss Geneva's Sunday jazz brunch in Crown Heights - alone, eyes closed, dissecting every layer of sound like a surgeon. Music is the one thing she trusts completely. The one thing that has never abandoned her the way her father did, choosing his jazz career over his family and leaving Nia to watch her mother disappear in the wreckage of...