Rosalyn Story’s book is out April 12
A new novel by a Lake Highlands author, who’s also an accomplished musician (life ain’t fair), drops April 12. Rosalyn Story’s Sing Her Name follows “two musically gifted women whose lives overlap across the boundaries of time.”
It’s the third book for Story, whose critically acclaimed narratives examine the central role of Black people in American music.
Dallas author Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, calls Sing a “jewel of a novel, gorgeously crafted, intensely moving and entirely fluent in the historical and musical worlds it portrays.”
Rosalyn Story
Also a violinist with the Fort Worth Symphony, Story penned More Than You Know in 2004 and Wading Home in 2010, which we interviewed her about in 2012. She also wrote And So I Sing, a nonfiction work about African American opera singers.
In a public Facebook post she says, “After years of writing and three pandemic-related delays, I am so grateful to friends and supporters of this project! It’s been a journey, but SING HER NAME, my newest novel will be released on April 12! (Available now for pre-order on amazon.com) To Doug and all the folks at Agate Publishing, thank you so much!”
Story will participate in this weekend’s Dallas Literary Festival alongside poet Randall Horton, Roger Reeves and moderator Cole Lavalais. The festival’s 2022 theme reportedly is “RESILIENCE, progressing forward during the powerful and unpredictable currents in social movements, politics, and public health that have shaped the world in recent years.” If you want to attend, you must register for each of the events you are attending ahead of time through the 2022 festival schedule.
