<p>The trouble with K.C. Brown's dream of playing alto sax for a local jazz band is that she's a nineteen-year-old white girl, the band members are middle-aged black men, the year is 1948, and they all live in a racially divided town in Iowa.</p><p>&nbsp;To succeed, she and the band must overcome resistance from both sides of the color barrier, and accept that ambition often comes with loss.</p><p>&nbsp;In the Blood explores the cultural, sexual, generational, and economic issues in post-World War II America, framed in the context of a friendship and understanding that develops between K.C. and the band's ailing trombonist, Freddie Ross.</p><p>This book is about music, it's about cultural shifts, and it's about life. In the Blood is smartly written, with every musical term and description spot-on.</p><p>-Diane Thayer, music educator</p><p>&nbsp;In the Blood is a tour de force....&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>-Donald Schneider, Midwest Book Reviews</p>