Book Ballad & Dagger by Daniel Jose Older is available to download free in pdf epub format.
| Name: | Ballad & Dagger by Daniel Jose Older |
| Format: | pdf epub |
| Categories: | Fiction Books,General English Books |
| Writer(s): | Daniel Jose Older |
About Ballad & Dagger by Daniel Jose Older
Almost sixteen years ago, Mateo Matisse’s island homeland disappeared into the sea. Weary and hopeless, the survivors of San Madrigal’s sinking escaped to New York. While the rest of his tight-knit Brooklyn diaspora community dreams of someday finding a way back home, Mateo–now a high school junior and piano prodigy living with his two aunts (one who’s alive, the other not so much)–is focused on one thing: getting the attention of locally-grown musical legend Gerval. Mateo finally gets his chance on the night of the Grand Fete, an annual party celebrating the blended culture of pirates, Cuban Santeros, and Sephardic Jews that created San Madrigal all those centuries ago.