Echoes of the Past

By: Tracy Yvette Lee

Narrated by: Nyamukandawiri

Echoes of the Past

A Novel in Thirteen Stories by Tracy Yvette Lee

In the heart of Watts, California, music remembers what people try to forget.

When young jazz singer Katherine “KC” Livingston steps onto the stage of the Blue Note, her voice awakens more than applause—it stirs the spirit of Aunt Shirley, a woman whose blues once filled the same streets and whose secrets were buried beneath them.

What begins as a melody becomes a haunting. A song called “Mama’s Hand” weaves through generations, binding the living and the dead—KC, her best friend Marian, and Miles Sinclair, the troubled son of a notorious madam whose sins still echo through time.

Told through thirteen interconnected stories, Echoes of the Past is a tapestry of music, memory, and redemption. It’s a story of women who carried the weight of love and loss in their hands—and a song that refused to be silenced.

Rich with porch talk wisdom and the rhythm of gospel and jazz, this debut novel by Tracy Yvette Lee honors the voices of mothers, daughters, and dreamers who turned their pain into poetry and their faith into song.

©2025 Tracy Yvette Lee (P)2026 Tracy Yvette Lee

Peace for Shirley

There is so much profound emontional heartfelt intense passion between the four them. KC ,Marion, Miles and Shirely. Following KC and Marion was like looking in the window of two sisters in the same place but different capcity. Seem.as if they could.feel Shirley when she was present at the same time. I love th