Freida Lives

Luisa LeBlanc's novel FREIDA LIVES effortlessly transports you to the American South, not to mention back more than a hundred years ago, to a time of great excitement surrounding the blossoming of a new musical sound known simply as "the blues." Freida's tale is one seemingly passed down from generation to generation, of a young mulatto girl caught between warring races, divided families and jilted lovers who finds her voice against insurmountable odds. Luisa's words ring with astonishing authenticity. They leap off the page and come to life. You can practically hear a battered six-string being gently plucked in the background as Freida pours her heart out in song.