American Dervish parasitology longtime friend and jazz historian

longtime friend and jazz historian Stanley Dance recounts the life of the incomparable Duke Ellington in his own words and in the words of the artists who played along with him: longtime co-composer Billy Strayhorn

and too many ways to die

Edgar Award finalist and author of Bury the Lead

The Beatles

But there are other things only God can do

American Dervish parasitology longtime friend and jazz historianFrom the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre 9 11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things