1/4/2023 0 Comments The songbook of benny lamentNaomi was tough in the way all the women in my family–particularly my mom–have been. But his personality was formed from my own study, my own imaginings about a young man like John, with all of his challenges, would have formed and grown. Were their characters/personalities inspired by anyone?Īmy: John Lowry was inspired by my husband’s five X’s great grandfather, John Lowry. Lindsay: Hi Amy! Thanks for being here with us! I adored John and Naomi. Can you tell us what it was like blending fact with fiction?Īmy: Melding fact and fiction–that just requires knowing enough about historical settings and people that you can make a character that could live and blend into the time. Much of the action in this book is simply the slow travel in a wagon train, so starting with that scene infuses the book with danger that it otherwise would not have had.ĭebra: Hi Amy! Thank you so much for joining us!!! I loved Where the Lost Wander and that it was inspired by your husband’s family. I also thought it created some tension throughout the story that otherwise would not have been there. I knew the reader would have to be forewarned, otherwise the violence and the shock would be too much when it did come. Why did you decide to start telling the story with that?Īmy: My editor thought maybe I shouldn’t start the novel with that because it might scare some readers away. Little is known beyond bare facts, but it gave me somewhere to start.īrenda: From the prologue, we know something tragic happens to the family. According to family history, he was “pale” enough to pass as a white man and because he’d been raised by one, he was able to live in a white man’s world pretty successfully. There was some question about whether his father was Cheyenne, but we know that it was a white man (a man also named John Lowry) who married his Pawnee mother and raised him in Missouri until the young John Lowry headed out west to make a future for himself. We didn’t know much about him beyond the fact that his mother was Pawnee Indian. Can you tell us about that?Īmy: My husband and I both enjoy genealogy, and the real John Lowry, the main male character in my story, is his ancestor. You have a personal connection to the story and the characters. “ I am excited to share some of it with you all today!īrenda: Hi Amy! Let’s get started right away with the idea for the story. “ epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. We asked her about Where the Lost Wander. THE SONGBOOK OF BENNY LAMENT FREEBut though America might love the music they make together, some people aren’t ready for Benny Lament and Esther Mine on-or off-the stage.We had the pleasure of Amy Harmon joining us in The Behind the Pages Goodreads group for a spoiler free Q & A. Benny’s songs and Esther’s vocals are an explosive combination, a sound that fans can’t get enough of. But the music and the woman are too hard for the piano man to resist. And when Benny writes a hit song and performs it with her, their collaboration thrusts the duo onto the national stage…and stirs up old issues and new scrutiny that the mob-and Benny-would rather avoid. So he keeps to himself, writing songs for other musicians, avoiding the spotlight…until the night his father brings him to see Esther Mine sing.Įsther is a petite powerhouse with a gorgeous voice. With his father’s deep ties to the mob, the Bronx piano man has learned that love and family can get you in trouble. New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. From the bestselling author of What the Wind Knows and From Sand and Ash comes a powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line to be together.
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