Ella: A Novel Material:Hardcover After escaping to New York

After escaping to New York

all returning to their nooks and nests at the end of the day atop skyscrapers

And now each of the five blades will come for him

In Evidence of Things Seen

against all hope

Ella: A Novel Material:Hardcover After escaping to New YorkIn the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of biographical fiction that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century. When fifteen year old Ella Fitzgeralds mother dies at the height of the Depression in 1932, the teenager goes to work for the mob to support herself and her family. When the law finally catches up,