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Carolyn Jack’s debut novel, “The Changing of Keys” will be released on Sept. 17 by Regal House Publishing.

The novel explores the cutthroat world of classical opera, grief, and coming-of-age. The plot follows a gifted, fourteen-year-old pianist, whose father has died. He himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will, to study classical music in the U.S. After breaking away from his controlling mother, he leaps into the dramatic and cutthroat world of opera. In this high-stakes milieu, his fierce desire to be a star fires both his brilliance and the dark distrust of women and of love that is the legacy of his childhood, a legacy that threatens his career, his impulsive marriage, and the young daughter he never wanted.

Naheed Phiroze Patel, author of “A Mirror Made of Rain” says of the book, “A lush, elegant aria of a novel, ‘The Changing of Keys’ will transport—with gorgeous, tender lyricism—the reader into the mind of a musical prodigy in search of meaning…. David Copperfield meets Norwegian Wood, this novel will break your heart only to mend it in startling and marvelous ways.”

Jack has won the Meringoff Prize for Fiction and The Westchester Review’ s Flash Fiction Contest. Her literary work has appeared in such periodicals as Literary Matters, the Blue Mountain Review, and Pen + Brush in Print. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and an award-winning arts journalist, she holds both an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts and an MA in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.