![]() Sunny’s relentless inquiry couldn’t be more personal, but as editor-in-chief of music magazine Aural, she presents it as a professional assignment: Aural needs to run a feature story on a reunion concert (or “final revival”) featuring Opal. His former mistress is Opal, whom Sunny interviews in order to piece together her origins and contextualize Jimmy’s murder forty-five years earlier, months before she was born. We first meet Sunny in 2016 and learn her father was a drummer named Jimmy Curtis. ![]() ![]() Structured as an oral history, this polyphonic debut not only examines the frayed familial ties that bind, but it also delves into the pervasive challenges Black performers faced in the ’70s and ’80s. But it’s not that simple (is rock ’n’ roll ever?). A journalist named Sunny tracks down a music luminary, Opal, who knew her father best. ![]() When Grace Jones sings “I’ll find my way to you, no matter where” on her 1979 album Muse, she could be the titular Opal Jewel in Dawnie Walton’s The Final Revival of Opal & Nev-or describing its plot. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton ![]()
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