Cannon Love - Paperback

by Latanya Jones (Author)

Beautiful and amazingly talented dancer Tannah Johnson who is filled with promise and ambition is lost in a maze amid African mask and militancy, ballet slippers and drug abuse and poetry and pickpockets. And the further along the maze she goes, the more of herself she looses. Ricocheting between Boston, New York and Chicago, Cannon Love paints a stark, vivid portrait of a young woman single mother trying to mend her fractured spirit. Searching for her father after her mother's arrest, Tannah finds only abuse, tragedy and disappointment. Her best friend Angel proves to be one of her greatest demons and the promise of Tannah's future becomes a whispered memory. Trying to rebuild herself she links up with a team of professional Cannons from Chicagoand finds a love she never imagined. But, her greatest love also leads to her deepest tragedy. Still, there's redemption. The first chords that begin to play are when Tannah opens an envelope in a prison cell. Full of clear, real voices, and imagery, music, laughter and pain. Cannon Love is the story of Tannah Johnson's redemption song. --