Blue in Green

It starts off a bit clunky, and I was unsure if I would get into it. Quickly, though, I found myself pulled in. A melancholic window into the world of Miles Davis and Frances Taylor. The novella follows a traumatic encounter Miles has with some cops as he processes the event via flashbacks as he drives around New York. Frances also processes the event in her own way, waiting for miles to come home. What is being processed along with the police brutality is the brutality between the two; what Frances has been asked to give up— a huge part of herself— and how she has still been treated in the aftermath. I think Brown did her justice by telling the story in a way that centers her perspective alongside Davis's.