Esi Edugyan\'s "Half-Blood Blues" is a powerful and moving novel about a group of African-American and German jazz musicians during World War II. Set in Berlin and Paris, the story follows Sid Griffiths, a young black trumpet
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Esi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist. She has twice won the Giller Prize, for her novels Half-Blood Blues (2011) and Washington Black (2018).