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From the best-selling author of Golden Hill, we are excited to welcome Francis Spufford to discuss his new novel, Cahokia Jazz: a thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently.
It’s 1922 and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. In the ancient city of Cahokia – a teeming industrial metropolis, a tinderbox of every race and creed – peace holds. Just about.
But on a snowy night at the end of winter, two roughshod detectives are called to the roof of a skyscraper. Their investigation will spill the city’s secrets and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets, either to destruction or rebirth.
Francis will be joined in conversation with Jacqueline Crooks, the 2023 Women’s Prize shortlisted author of Fire Rush.