Reading and Book Signing with Jan Gaye author of After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye – May 20th 7PM – Harlem, NY
LeRoy Neiman Art Center in Harlem, 2485 Frederick Douglas Blvd. (at 148th St.), New York, NY 10039 – Refreshments will be served.Troy will be there with at least one free book to the first person who presents a print out of this page of our enewsletter.
Gay’s memoir, After the Dance (Amistad, May 19, 2015), reveals how she met Marvin in February 1973. Despite a seventeen-year age difference and Marvin’s marriage to the sister of Berry Gordy, Motown’s founder, the enchanted teenager and the emotionally volatile singer began a scorching relationship.
“With raw and penetrating honesty, this memoir reveals everything audiences ever wanted to know about Marvin Gaye’s life. Offering a holistic understanding of Gaye’s obsession with finding love, his addictions, and most especially the philosophy behind the music. Sympathetic, caring, this is a must read for anyone who wants to learn the traumatic backstory that shapes Gaye and all of his relationships. Most importantly, this is also a story of a woman courageously sharing her voice, her story.” –bell hooks, author of Ain’t I A Woman