Independent Publisher Book Awards When Roscoe Jones, a one-time trumpet prodigy, loses his finger, he loses more than his ability to play.
Although they hardly notice him as anything but a working part.
Very soon, his life is no longer his own; he fades into the background, plumbing and fixing and toiling for the tenants populating the eleven stories above him.
Instead of becoming a musician, he becomes the superintendent of the Chicago apartment building where he has lived since birth.
Independent Publisher Book Awards When Roscoe Jones, a one-time trumpet prodigy, loses his finger, he loses more than his ability to play