From the plaintive "Lover Man" to the antilynching "Strange Fruit," jazz singer Billie Holiday lived the songs she sang—and worse. Her acclaimed talent persisted through violence and exploitation from her menfolk plus drinking, drugging, and discrimination. This biography offers glaring flashes of Holiday's songs and life more than the details, with Muñoz's high-contrast, black-and-white panels immersing audiences in an overwhelming strung-out reality. Mature readers. (
LJ 7/17)
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