2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas, (Paperback)

from asxz

Delightful and deceptively simple story with multiple characters in Philly on the day before Xmas Eve all leading up to a significant performance at 2 in the morning at the beleaguered Cat's Pajamas jazz club. Such a light touch but enough emotional weight to leave me wanting more. Brava.

from lostinalibrary

2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas is a story about a little girl named Madeleine and a jazz club called The Cat's Pajamas told over the space of 24 hours on Christmas Eve eve in Philadelphia. Her mother has recently died and her father spends his days in his room wrapped in a drug-induced haze, the mel...

from BrokenTeepee

This book defies category and description. I don't even know how to begin to review it. It's rather amusing - I've mentioned before that I take my books for review as they come to me and some have been in my calendar for months and some have only been listed for a couple of weeks and yet they sti...

from msf59

Madeleine Altimari is obsessed with old time jazz and she wants to be a jazz singer, like her beloved Blossom Dearie. She is nine years old...going on ten. Madeline is smart, a loner, a smoker and cusses like a dockworker. Her mother recently died and her father has vanished into his own despair....

from JessicaReadsThings

What a charming, delightful novel. I was prepared to feel lukewarm about this one because I didn't really know what it was about, and sometimes "precocious" protagonists annoy me. But I was completely wrong! The writing is very poetic and the pacing is cadenced (I guess that's the write word; pe...