Kirjahaku

Florence is 91 years old. She is dying. Atlantic City is dying too. But both were once vibrantly alive. This is a love story between friends who met in a yoga class. "When our l'affair du coeur started Florence was 87. I was 51. She lived in the city. I lived in the suburbs. She's a black Hebrew; I'm a WASP. We are completely alike. ...] During that first car ride when we started talking about everything--we had hardly scratched the surface of politics, nature, travel, race, spirituality, Atlantic City history, love, sex--we became immediate best friends." This is a love story carried on the wings of amazing songs in an amazing city. Atlantic City's Kentucky Avenue was the music mecca of the 1950s, rivaling Harlem and New Orleans. All of the black entertainers that came through Atlantic City--Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, Louis Armstrong--drank champagne on Celebrity Row at Chicken Bone Beach and even stayed at Florence's house.