The Time of Our Singing is the story of a mixed-race marriage in post-war America, reaching back to remembered slaves and their masters and culminating in the crack- and crime-ridden hip-hop culture of Oakland of the present day. It is Richard Powers' eighth novel, and is the crowning glory of an already impressive and underrated body of work.
Singing is the story of the Strom children, Jonah, Joseph and Ruth, and of their black mother and white, Jewish father. The Stroms are a family of singers and performers. Their lives and ambitions are sustained, defined, motivated, and, ultimately, forced apart and destroyed by their overriding passion for the music they perform.
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