A review by bwolfe718
Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis

4.0

Read my full review here:
http://readherlikeanopenbook.com/2014/09/09/rainey-royal-troubled-teen-artist-recovers-in-alpha-female-persona/

Dylan Landis’s debut story collection, Normal People Don’t Live Like This (2009), featured a range of memorable characters, one of whom returns as the titular protagonist of her first novel, Rainey Royal.

While she was a minor character in the first book, Rainey gets her moment in the spotlight in this raw and prickly coming of age story set in 1970s Greenwich Village. In these 14 interconnected stories, Rainey is the 14-year-old daughter of legendary jazz musician Howard Royal, whose rundown five-story brownstone serves as something of a commune for him and his musical acolytes and groupies....