The Sky Club

By: Terry Roberts

Narrated by: Heather Nichols

"When I'm dead and buried . . . you get the hell out of here . . . Make a life somewhere else . . . a life that I can't even imagine."

Jo has a gift. She is a mathematical prodigy—a woman who sees and thinks in numbers. She secures a job as a teller at Central Bank & Trust, where she recreates herself as a modern woman and rises through the professional ranks. While working at the bank, Jo becomes fascinated by Levi Arrowood, the dark and mysterious manager of the Sky Club, an infamous speakeasy and jazz club on the mountainside above town.

When the Great Depression brings Central Bank & Trust down in a seismic crash, Jo is forced to find a new home and job. She finds both at the Sky Club, where she strikes a partnership with the alluring Arrowood as she is drawn deeper into a glamorous and precarious life of bootlegging, jazz, and love.

The Sky Club is the story of money, greed, and life after the crash from the eyes of one remarkable woman as she creates her own imagined life.

©2022 Terry Roberts (P)2024 Tantor

Real Asheville history

As an Ashevillian, Iloved the accuracy of the history, the characters, and all the places mentioned current and long gone that are so well known. I was completely caught up in the story.
The narrator did a very good job, however the place names were often mispronounced. Because the places are so important to the story, it was a bit of a record scratch when I heard them: Buncombe is pronounced buncum, Brevard has the stress in the 2nd syllable and Leicester is pronounced Lester.