My Songbird Can Dance (The Complete Trilogy)
There’s an old expression, forgive and forget. This book is not about that. This book is about the opposite – not forgiving, not forgetting, about the avenging of a despicable wrong that in turn spawns a vicious cycle of retribution.

This book is therefore a trilogy, for that’s how long it took Vigil Chimé to deftly and confidently weave together the wicked web of vengeance that is the plot of her debut novel. The setting is urban, the time contemporary, with a cast of characters drawn from ordinary folks who are going about their ordinary lives, but Chimé has infused their humanity with incredible insight that’s rendered their journeys extraordinary.

If you’re interested in a perspective of America as seen through the eyes of African immigrants and their first-generation American children, then this book is for you. If you’re interested in the literary device of a story-within-a-story-within-a-story construct, then this book is also for you. If you’re interested in prose that’s graphic, chuck full of details, vividly imaginative and cinematic to the extent you feel thrust into the center of the action, then this story is definitely for you. But above all, read this book because it’s good.
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My Songbird Can Dance (The Complete Trilogy)
There’s an old expression, forgive and forget. This book is not about that. This book is about the opposite – not forgiving, not forgetting, about the avenging of a despicable wrong that in turn spawns a vicious cycle of retribution.

This book is therefore a trilogy, for that’s how long it took Vigil Chimé to deftly and confidently weave together the wicked web of vengeance that is the plot of her debut novel. The setting is urban, the time contemporary, with a cast of characters drawn from ordinary folks who are going about their ordinary lives, but Chimé has infused their humanity with incredible insight that’s rendered their journeys extraordinary.

If you’re interested in a perspective of America as seen through the eyes of African immigrants and their first-generation American children, then this book is for you. If you’re interested in the literary device of a story-within-a-story-within-a-story construct, then this book is also for you. If you’re interested in prose that’s graphic, chuck full of details, vividly imaginative and cinematic to the extent you feel thrust into the center of the action, then this story is definitely for you. But above all, read this book because it’s good.
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My Songbird Can Dance (The Complete Trilogy)

My Songbird Can Dance (The Complete Trilogy)

by Vigil Chimé
My Songbird Can Dance (The Complete Trilogy)

My Songbird Can Dance (The Complete Trilogy)

by Vigil Chimé

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Overview

There’s an old expression, forgive and forget. This book is not about that. This book is about the opposite – not forgiving, not forgetting, about the avenging of a despicable wrong that in turn spawns a vicious cycle of retribution.

This book is therefore a trilogy, for that’s how long it took Vigil Chimé to deftly and confidently weave together the wicked web of vengeance that is the plot of her debut novel. The setting is urban, the time contemporary, with a cast of characters drawn from ordinary folks who are going about their ordinary lives, but Chimé has infused their humanity with incredible insight that’s rendered their journeys extraordinary.

If you’re interested in a perspective of America as seen through the eyes of African immigrants and their first-generation American children, then this book is for you. If you’re interested in the literary device of a story-within-a-story-within-a-story construct, then this book is also for you. If you’re interested in prose that’s graphic, chuck full of details, vividly imaginative and cinematic to the extent you feel thrust into the center of the action, then this story is definitely for you. But above all, read this book because it’s good.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940013899346
Publisher: Breakfast Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
Publication date: 03/02/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 650
File size: 467 KB

About the Author

Vigil Chimé is a Nigerian-American who arrived to the US with her family in the late 70s. Though she spent her childhood in Houston, TX, she's called Harlem, New York home since 1990.

Chimé's unique perspective as someone who straddles two cultures - African and American - is evident in all her work. She has the ability to sew the day-to-day life of the New American seamlessly within the larger American tapestry in a way that profoundly connects us all.

In 1996, Chimé graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Film. She made four independent feature films- the trailers of which can be viewed on her website - before switching focus to writing novels.

Whether as filmmaker or as novelist, Chimé strives to bring people everywhere stories that give an insight into the workings of the human heart. MY SONGBIRD CAN DANCE is her first novel.

For updates on Chimé and all her work, please follow her on her blog: www.vigilchime.com/blog or visit her on her video diaries on youtube. Find her under "vigil chime".
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