The Consummate Tenor
I just re-read You Are
My Song, the novel all about Jamie Logan and his journey into opera world,
and his trials along the way. I like Jamie Logan. I wrote the consummate tenor
when I wrote Jamie: he is unusually gifted and learns his craft well. He is an accomplished
singer. I also made him a good guy with very little ego, something that tends
to be a rare attribute in tenors.
Jamie goes through a lot in his journey, which takes place
in the 1960s. His first marriage, to his high school sweetheart, ends
acrimoniously. He doesn’t start to study music seriously until he’s
twenty-three, and he almost immediately experiences how bitterly jealous a
rival can be. He has to sing a performance of his first opera while his mother
is lying in a coma as the result of an auto accident. He falls in love again,
but that is very complicated because … well, no spoilers. His college
accompanist is the victim of a hate crime. Another family crisis causes him to
drop out of graduate school. His old college nemesis resurfaces at the most important
audition of his career and does his best to sabotage him.
Good things happen to him as well. His ability is recognized
wherever he goes, and he begins to achieve some success. Doors open for him,
and sometimes luck is the determining factor in a career in opera. He meets the
love of his life and marries her, and with her love and support he begins to
overcome his self-doubts. When he becomes a father, it’s the fulfillment of a
life-long dream.
Jamie had no idea how complicated being a father could
become. He never considered that his daughter Laura would be a violin prodigy.
Or that his son Niall would develop bipolar disorder. And that’s the story you
will read in Jamie’s Children.
Cover by Tristan Flanagan
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