num_pages: 336
description: A fathers sudden disappearance exposes the private fears dreams longings and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls.Its a warm bright October afternoon and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh birthday. At home his wife Deborah and daughter Trinity prepare a surprise celebration; down the street his brother waves as Oz heads back to his office after having lunch together. But he wont make it to the party or even to his briefcase back at his desk. Hes about to disappear. In the days months and years to follow Deborah and Trinity look backward and forward as they piece together the life of the man they love but whom they come to realize they might never have truly known. In a gripping narrative that moves from the Great Migration to 1970s Detroit and 1990s New York we follow the hopes triumphs losses and secrets that build up and tear apart an American family.
language: English
title: Life and Other Love Songs
publisher: Berkley