The Sky Club, Terry Roberts
The Sky Club, Terry Roberts
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The Sky Club

Author: Terry Roberts

Narrator: Heather Nichols

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/30/2024

Synopsis

"When I'm dead and buried . . . you get the hell out of here . . . Make a life somewhere else . . . a life that I can't even imagine."

Jo has a gift. She is a mathematical prodigy—a woman who sees and thinks in numbers. She secures a job as a teller at Central Bank & Trust, where she recreates herself as a modern woman and rises through the professional ranks. While working at the bank, Jo becomes fascinated by Levi Arrowood, the dark and mysterious manager of the Sky Club, an infamous speakeasy and jazz club on the mountainside above town.

When the Great Depression brings Central Bank & Trust down in a seismic crash, Jo is forced to find a new home and job. She finds both at the Sky Club, where she strikes a partnership with the alluring Arrowood as she is drawn deeper into a glamorous and precarious life of bootlegging, jazz, and love.

The Sky Club is the story of money, greed, and life after the crash from the eyes of one remarkable woman as she creates her own imagined life.

About Terry Roberts

Terry Roberts's direct ancestors have lived in the mountains of Western North Carolina since the time of the Revolutionary War. His family farmed in the Big Pine section of Madison County for generations and is also prominent in the Madison County town of Hot Springs, a consistent setting in his novels. Among his forebears are prominent bootleggers and preachers but no one who, like Jedidiah Robbins, combines both preoccupations.

His debut novel, A Short Time to Stay Here, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and his second novel, That Bright Land, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award as well as the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South.

Born and raised near Weaverville, North Carolina, Roberts is the Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by George on June 06, 2022

Terry Roberts delights with this tale of boom and bust in Asheville, NC. Spanning the years of the stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression, THE SKY CLUB features an unforgettable heroine in Jo Salter, a young woman from the mountain hinterlands, whose dying mother sends her away fro......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on March 23, 2022

The Sky Club is Roberts’ best work to date. The compelling story of plucky Jo Salter’s introduction to city life after living deep in the mountains, layered with the story of the bank crash of 1930 that crippled Asheville, and the story of the mysterious Levi who isn’t afraid to bend or break laws,......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on September 05, 2022

This new book by Terry Roberts may well be his best so far. The story deftly weaves together the very different worlds of traditional, subsistence family farming in Appalachia, and the lively, modern scene of Asheville with its fancy houses, jazz joints, and people driven by money and status. Jo Sal......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay on February 09, 2024

This book is ELECTRIC! The Sky Club follows Jo Salter through her life adjusting from country girl to modern city girl. As she navigates both identities and fulfills the promise from her late mother to “go and create a life she could never have imagined,” Jo breaks stereotypes of women from day one......more

Goodreads review by Heather on May 04, 2022

In this novel, set in depression/prohibition era Asheville, NC, Terry Roberts gives us Jo Salter, one of the strongest, most interesting female protagonists I've ever read. A farm girl with an unlikely gift for math, she is fearless, funny, and not afraid to go after what she wants. Great tension an......more

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