The Spyglass Tree

By “our premier writer about jazz and the blues...and a fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition” ( Washington Post Book World ),  The Spyglass Tree  is a deeply affecting novel of elegant, lyrical reminiscence and profound sophistication about a young black man’s advent into the world of academia—an imaginary Alabama college—in the 1930s. Admist the excitement of the world of ideas and adventures with new friends, Scooter sallies into “the territory of the blues,” where