When Roscoe Jones, a one-time trumpet prodigy, loses his finger, he loses more than his ability to play. Instead of becoming a musician, he becomes the superintendent of the Chicago apartment building where he has lived since birth. Very soon, his life is no longer his own; he fades into the background, plumbing and fixing and toiling for the tenants populating the eleven stories above him. Although they hardly notice him as anything but a working part of the building, he develops a sometimes uncomfortable intimacy with the details of their complicated lives.--From back cover.
- ISBN10 0988946505
- ISBN13 9780988946507
- Publish Date 10 April 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Rubber Tree Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 234
- Language English