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Rosalyn Story is a violinist with the Fort Worth Symphony and the author of the novels More Than You Know (Agate Bolden, 2004) and Wading Home (Agate Bolden, 2010), as well as And So I Sing, a nonfiction work about African American opera singers. She lives in Dallas, Texas.
PRAISE FOR SING HER NAME:
"Sing Her Name is an uplifting tale told with a sure command
of narrative pacing and drama. Story reveals a knack for natural
dialogue and writes movingly, both about music and the devastation
caused by Katrina." — The Dallas Morning News
"Musical talent blooms in Rosalyn Story's stirring,
character-driven novel Sing Her Name, a powerful story about
Black artistry, women's dreams, and overcoming strife. . .
. Sing Her Name is a beautiful and triumphant novel in
which a talented woman works to reconcile her sense of family
loyalty with her fidelity to her own considerable gifts." —Foreword
Review, starred review
"Story's background as a musician and nonfiction writer about
African American opera... primes her to tell this musical tale of
the ghosts of wronged artists and the burdens they pass on, the
legacy of place, and how we can forgive others and move on, with or
without them. This truly is a novel that sings." —Booklist
"Sing Her Name is a brilliant jewel of a novel, gorgeously
crafted, intensely moving, and entirely fluent in the historical
and musical worlds it portrays. Such is the mastery of Rosalyn
Story's double narrative that this novel of two singers, bound in
spirit but separated by some seventy years, captures so much of the
weight and thrust of America—of promises broken, of possibilities
dangling just out of reach. Sing Her Name gives us heartbreak
and heroes in nearly equal measure, and it's in
that nearly—paper-thin, and wide as the ocean—that this
glorious story lives." —Ben Fountain, New York Times bestselling
author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
"Rosalyn Story is a superb storyteller who has beautifully
illuminated the life of Sissieretta Jones throughout her
novel Sing Her Name. In her novel, the mystery and
intrigue of the two main characters, Celia DeMille and Eden
Malveaux, and how their lives are entwined, is what propels this
moving story to an outcome that ends on a Magnificent High
Note. As in her previous book, And So I Sing, Rosalyn has
once again paid homage to the greatest singer of her generation,
Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones. Like Rosalyn Story's
novel, Sing Her Name, we will continue to let our voices rise
in a loud crescendo to celebrate her life and legacy." —Harolyn
Blackwell, Soprano, Metropolitan Opera
"With Sing Her Name, more than any of her novels, Rosalyn
Story establishes herself as a true artist. This novel demands the
musicality of a classical musician, the love of bringing history
into the present, and the desire to right the wrongs of African
American women, and Story weaves them together as if she were a
chief conductor. Sing Her Name is Rosalyn's masterpiece.
Bravo.” —Sanderia Faye, author of Mourner's Bench, winner
of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
PRAISE FOR WADING HOME:
"New Orleans natives struggle to recover their lives as well as
their property after Hurricane Katrina.... Story’s musical
background infuses her novel with a lyrical rhythm...as engaging
characters rebuild their relationships and their city. The current
oil-spill crisis only makes the hopefulness of this novel more
moving, if heart-wrenching." —Kirkus Reviews
"Story writes with the plot-twisting precision of a veteran and a
lyricism reminiscent of James Baldwin." —Black Issues Book Review
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