Books of the Month
Partita
Description
Livia is a school music teacher in the same part of rural Tennessee where she grew up, once a piano prodigy who escaped on a music scholarship to Indiana, convinced she was leaving her parents’ world behind for good. When she receives a call from an old lover who derailed her musical career, she is sent spinning into the past – from the suicide of her brother to her past ambitions. Between two timelines, Livia grapples with the differences between artist and teacher, love and lust, and the things that fuel a life.