Jazz Characters

Violet, Violet, Violet. No—we're not muttering under our breath; we're addressing each of the three Violets that populate this novel.Yes, you read that right. Though to be clear, there is physica...

So much of Joe's character can be summed up in his last name. When he is in school, he's asked to supply a last name for himself and he comes up with Trace because, when his adoptive mother tells h...

Dorcas is a real wild child, a flapper, a jazz lover, a juvenile delinquent, and a speakeasy aficionado. She's the 1920s in a nutshell: a very sexually attractive nutshell with bad skin, to be prec...

Felice's name means happy, and this is important because Felice brings happiness to the otherwise pretty freaking dismal world of Jazz. Her most important feat in the world of Jazz is to set Joe an...

Alice is the prude to Dorcas's wild-child, the button up blouse to Dorcas's knee-baring skirts. And boy, oh boy, does she have reasons to be. Her parents were super strict. Like, super:They spoke t...

Golden Gray is—surprise—a golden boy. He is also a mama's boy. He's washed three times a day as a baby (overkill much?) and spoiled rotten. He's given the best clothes, encouraged to let his ha...

We're thinking of renaming Hunter's Hunter Man's Man. Why's that? Because he exemplifies all that is super-manly: He's a hunter, he's an independent dude, and he acts as a surrogate father to Joe (...