More than you know
By: Rosalyn Story.
Publisher: Agate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Street musicians -- Fiction.; Separated people -- Fiction.; Women singers -- Fiction.; Saxophonists -- Fiction.; Secrecy -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "As thunder cracks and rain pours down furiously, a nine-year-old boy picks his way through the streets of a rural Arkansas town, carefully cradling a newborn girl in his arms. Under a solemn oath never to reveal the baby's origins, he delivers the nameless child safely to the doorstep of an unsuspecting family and retreats without a word. Many years later, the boy, L.J. Tillman, has matured into a brilliant jazz saxophone player. But when the secret that L.J. guarded so faithfully is finally revealed, his marriage of twenty-four years is suddenly ripped apart. The devastated L.J. finds himself homeless and playing for change on the streets of New York City. As he wanders from the wreckage of his past, he struggles to figure out how he can ever return to his wife and home in Kansas City." "Meanwhile, L.J.'s beloved wife Olivia hopes against seemingly impossible odds for the return of the husband most others have given up for dead. Tormented by uncertainty and regret, she struggles to keep her beauty shop business afloat, and to face up to her lifelong fear of fulfilling her long-denied talent as a singer. L.J. embarks on an odyssey to escape the streets, recover his career, and ultimately return to his wife and his home. Each must confront the consequences of L.J.'s secret - and a few other secrets that neither is prepared for - if they hope to recover their life together." "More Than You Know is the story of how this shattered couple tries to rescue their marriage: shaken to the core, they discover that truth conforms to its own rules, and that love can endure even the most profound injuries."--BOOK JACKET.