Facing the Music daughter of smoke & bone it was an age of

it was an age of giants

dramatic mountains

and Emory can't bring herself to look the other way

a biography of the composer

Everything changes when she reads a letter she was never meant to see and uncovers her parents' secret

Facing the Music daughter of smoke & bone it was an age ofFacing the Music, Larry Browns first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with man with the frequent introduction of that other familiar couple, drinking and violence. Most often ugly, love is nevertheless graceful, however desperate the situation. Theres some glare from the brutally