City of Refuge (39 page)

Authors: Tom Piazza

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BOOK: City of Refuge

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SJ dug two nails out of his pocket and set them between his teeth. Then he looked down at Wesley. “It’s straight?” he said.

Wesley nodded.

“Good,” SJ said. “Hand me that hammer.”

About the Author

TOM PIAZZA
is the author of the post-Katrina classic
Why New Orleans Matters,
the Faulkner Society Award–winning novel
My Cold War,
and the widely acclaimed short-story collection
Blues and Trouble,
which won the James Michener Award for Fiction. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is also well known as a writer on American music; in 2004 he won a Grammy Award for his album notes for
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues: A Musical Journey,
and he is a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Tom Piazza lives in New Orleans.

www.tompiazza.com

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Also by Tom Piazza

Why New Orleans Matters

My Cold War

Blues and Trouble

Understanding Jazz

True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass

Blues Up and Down: Jazz in Our Time

The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz

Setting the Tempo
(editor)

Credits

Jacket photograph by Tommy Staub

Jacket design by Archie Ferguson

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

CITY OF REFUGE
. Copyright © 2008 by Tom Piazza. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Mobipocket Reader July 2008 ISBN 978-0-06-169932-0

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