You Are My Song (The Carousel Trilogy) - Softcover

Jordan, Susan Moore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1505523435 ISBN 13: 9781505523430

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

You Are My Song is Book Three in The Carousel Trilogy.The nineteen-fifties. Elvis is wearing “Blue Suede Shoes.” Country music reigns supreme at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville. But in a small Tennessee town Jamie Logan - a good-hearted young man with a superb tenor voice - stars in his high school’s musical theater production and begins an unlikely, almost magical journey that could take him to the pinnacle of the opera world. The path is far from simple. Jamie just wants to sing. He is ill-prepared for the jealousy, rivalry and politics he encounters on his way. Family crises and even a hate crime also sidetrack him and threaten to undermine his journey.But Jamie has a voice beautiful beyond belief - and the love of a woman who inspires him to believe in himself. His desire to sing becomes his reason for being. Will that be enough?

About this title

About the Author:

When Susan Moore Jordan was a high school student in the mid-1950s in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a close friend went through a shattering event just as she was preparing to audition for the high school's annual musical. Decades later Jordan used that experience of tragedy to triumph to write her first novel, "How I Grew Up," in 2013. Two additional novels followed: "Eli's Heart" in 2014 and "You Are My Song" in 2015, completing "The Carousel Trilogy." A fourth novel, "Jamie's Children," was released in July, 2016. 
"Memories of Jake," the first book in a two-part series set in the Vietnam War era, was released in March, 2017, followed by "Man with No Yesterdays" in November, 2017. 
In May, 2018, Susan Jordan added the genre "cozy mystery" to her novels when she released "The Case of the Slain Soprano." In November of 2018 the second book in the "Augusta McKee mystery series" was released: "The Case of the Disappearing Director."
Jordan attended the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and moved to the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania in 1971 with her late husband and three young children, where she established a private voice studio in 1979. Her students have gone on to leading schools of music and opera or musical theater companies around the world. 
Beginning in 1984, Jordan directed some eighty local community and high school musical theater productions. She retired from directing in 2015 after over thirty years and wrote about her adventures in "More Fog, Please": Thirty-One Years Directing Community and High School Musicals, released in November, 2015. 
All of her books are available on Amazon in paperback, and the novels are also available as Kindle editions. Paperback copies of Jordan's books can be purchased locally at the Pocono Cinema and Community Center in East Stroudsburg.
On Feb. 2, 2018, "The Case of the Slain Soprano" was named a finalist in the 2018 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards in the category "Books for Adults (fiction)." 

Review:

You Are My Song follows Jamie Logan, a gifted opera singer, as he chases his dreams and falls in love.
Jordan has brought the world of opera to life in a way which can be appreciated whether or not you are a lover of the art. The character interactions are the main driver of the narrative. These are real people with real thoughts and emotions, and you will feel you are there alongside them.
Susan Moore Jordan is a highly skilled technical writer as well as a masterful story teller.
Lovers of romance and intelligent dramas will find a lot to appreciate in this book. --Ebookplanet2014 - 4.5 stars
In the final novel of The Carousel Trilogy, Jordan gathers the featured characters (Melanie Stewart, Krissy Porter, and Jamie Logan) from her series together in one glorious romance tale. Based on her "experiences as a voice teacher and stage director" and "inspired by real people she has encountered," Jordan's 1960's plot shines a light on the complexities of professionals in the opera realm. While men and women's roles were defined differently in general as well as in the musical arena, so too were issues of race and gender--all thought provoking concepts for readers to ruminate on to compare then and now. As she weaves in these troubling aspects in the midst of Jamie's intriguing life, Jordan includes a delightful array of all things opera.
Anita Lock, Underground Book Reviews, 9-26-16

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1505523435
• ISBN 13: 9781505523430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 407