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for fans of ann patchett s bel canto amanda coplin s the orchardist and annie proulx s accordion crimes a tour de force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents for better and for worse in 1962 in the soviet union eight year old katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life a blthner piano built at the turn of the century in germany on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music in turn does for her yet after marrying she emigrates with her young family from russia to america at her husband s frantic insistence and her piano is lost in the shuffle in 2012 in bakersfield california twenty six year old clara lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment which is complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday shortly before he and her mother died in a fire that burned their house down a blthner upright she has never learned to play ophaned she was raised by her aunt and uncle who in his car repair shop trained her to become a first rate mechanic much to the surprise of her subsequent customers but this work her true mainstay in a scattered life is put on hold when her hand gets broken while the piano s being moved and in sudden frustration she chooses to sell it and what becomes crucial is who the most interested party turns out to be

Author : Chris Cander