Everything you need to understand or teach Midnight Hour Encores by Bruce Brooks.
Midnight Hour Encores, Brooks's second novel, follows Sibilance T. Spooner, world-class cellist, with the cockiness and sarcasm to match, on a crosscountry journey across the United States with her father. She has finally, after sixteen years, asked to meet Connie, the mother she has never known.
The underlying motivation of the trip from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco, however, may be to solve the mystery of the Tartar cellist Dzyga who disappeared...