Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale

Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale by J.J. Phillips. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781852421090.

Orpheus played his lyre so beautifully that even the rivers and rocks were moved to do his bidding. In Mojo Hand, it is the blues singer Blacksnake Brown who casts a spell over Eunice Prideaux, a light-skinned black woman from San Francisco. Eunices fascination with the blues doesnt always mean being the helpless victim of whatever created them. The life she has to lead is her own and no one elses. The haunting language of Mojo Hand has no equivalent in twentieth-century fiction - it is matched only by the music that is its subject.