Jazz by Toni Morrison
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The book was written by Toni Morrison. She was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is a council of humanities in Princeton University. She has also written five other novels, including The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and the most recent one, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Although the novel is modern, it takes place in Harlem, New York, in the 1920s. Or the main story does. Actually the book consists of the main story and many little stories along with it. They take place in the late 19th century, when the main characters were born. Also the places change...