TheTimeofOurSinging

On Easter Day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish migr scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a concert singer. Against all odds, they marry, vowing to raise their offspring beyond time, beyond race, beyond belonging, steeped in song. But their children, Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth, must survive America's brutal here and now. As a polarized America threatens to tear the family apart, only their deep, shared love of song stands any hope of preserving them. Set against the sweeping backdrop of contemporary American history, The Time of Our Singing is nevertheless deeply personal and intimate, a heartrending tale of the power of music and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all identity.