Last Night at the Blue Angel (Audiobook)

from SilversReviews

Naomi and Sophia live alone as mother and daughter. Naomi is a singer and got her start i​n her ​Catholic school with Sister Idalia. Sophia loves her mother, sits at the night club when her mother sings, and sees things an eleven-year-old shouldn't be seeing. LAST NIGHT AT THE BLUE ANGEL is mostl...

from rglossne

This moving debut novel is about the the many ways we love, the many forms that family can take, and the powerful effects that loss has on our lives. Naomi, a talented undiscovered jazz singer, and her ten year old daughter Sophia, live in Chicago in the 1960s, but Naomi's story is revealed in fl...

from librarian1204

I enjoy books where the MC is a young person. I like the perspective and the freshness provided by youth. Last Night at the Blue Angel, was an excellent example of this. Sophia is ten, in 1965 and lives in a hotel in Chicago with her mother, Naomi, a singer at the Blue Angel, a less than top of t...

from kdabra4

I enjoyed this one a lot (compliments of LibraryThing). It is 1965 in Chicago--segregation, the Cold War, and razing of some old Chicago buildings all play a part. A single mother, the talented Naomi, sings at The Blue Angel nightclub to support herself and her 10 year old daughter Sophia. Sophia...

from melaniehope

I enjoyed this book and it was between 3 and 4 stars. It started off slowly but then gains momentum. The story takes place in the 1960s in Chicago. Naomi is focused more on gaining stardom than on raising her daughter Sophia. Sophia is more the adult in this book struggling to have a normal famil...