above the east china sea a novel sarah bird

Yet, in the people who inhabit the dance floor, Bird creates a cast of fully realized, compassionate human beings.' - The Dallas Morning News 'Sarah Bird ruthlessly strips away the shallow glamour of marathon dancing, exposing cynical, cash-driven machinations founded on desperate poverty and run by chiselers. 'Bird is a master at crafting narrative voices.' - Booklist 'Texas author Sarah Bird constructs curious dreamscapes.' - Austin American Stateman Texas Observer's Best Texas Books of 2022 That indomitable spirit powers a story that is a testament to the deep well of resilience in us all that allows us to not only survive the hardest of hard times, but to find joy, friends, and even family, in them.

Unforgettable characters tell a story that is still deeply resonant today as America learns what Evie learns, that there truly isn’t anything this country can’t do when we do it together.

Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a sweeping novel that brings to spectacular life the enthralling worlds of both dance marathons and the family-run empire of vice that was Galveston in the Thirties. All that she has been denied-a family, a purpose, even love-waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. She’d come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman-and a nation-struggling to be reborn from the ashes.

Above the east china sea a novel sarah bird