Tap Dancing at the Bluebird: A Novel (ebook)

Two young dancers share this coming-of-age story as they tap dance for change and ride the rails during the Great Depression.

But Mattie and Kip lose each other for a lifetime when they become separated after a betrayal and a train crash. They each live a full life as a dancer. Now at 99, Mattie, at long last, talks to her granddaughter about this different era, remembering how a light-footed roving youth taught her to tap and set her life in motion. With rhythms of tap, modern, and social dancing, the novel’s cadence draws readers through a century of cultural and political change in America, while the reader is left to wonder if our two dancers will ever see each other again. The story turns upon the Is there still time, in this lifetime, to love and forgive?

About the Author

Christine Walker has an MFA in Writing and Literature in Fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars and an MA in Creative Arts Interdisciplinary from San Francisco State University. A visual artist, she is also the author of "A Painter’s Cultivating the Creative Life" (Warner Books), a consultant in design and strategic visual facilitation with corporations and nonprofits, and a writing teacher.