Bald, Black and bold Opal Jewel and white English singer Nev were about as unlikely a musical duo as they could get in 1960s America. Yet their brand of panache worked at least for audiences. Years later, a reporter with a personal connection to the duo revisits Opal and Nev’s legacy and finds much tarnish hidden underneath all that sparkle. Racism, women’s rights, and the many subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways in which minorities are routinely made to feel like the other, feature boldly in these pages. Told in a chorus of voices, this is one technicolor riot of a novel.
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