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Set in 1979 Brooklyn, Different
Drummer chronicles the life and times of Cara Funk (née Carol Finkelstein),
a female drummer struggling to break out of the wedding music trade and succeed
as a rock musician. Rapidly approaching 30, this is Cara’s self-imposed last
chance and she’s willing to sacrifice everything to “make it.”
Told through journal entries and
running commentary from a colorful cast of more than a dozen supporting characters,
Cara’s saga unfolds in a mad swirl of Sergio Valente jeans, drugs, song lyrics,
decrepit rock clubs, an Etan Patz obsession, cheesy bar mitzvahs, White Castle sliders
and ruffled tuxedo shirts.
Different
Drummer seamlessly
combines prose, interviews, song lyrics and play excerpts to tell Cara’s story
and has you guessing until the last page—will Cara
ultimately triumph, go out in a
blaze of glory or just fade away?
The
story encompasses a wealth of human emotions, from parental love to acceptance,
forgiveness and perseverance.
About
Author
Catherine Gigante-Brown
has been a freelance writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry for more than 30
years, since the ripe young age of fifteen. Her works have appeared in a
variety of publications, including Ravishly,
Huffington Post Women, Time Out New York, Essence, Seventeen and The Italian Journal of Wine and Food.
Along with Robert “The Harrad Experiment”
Rimmer, she co-wrote two biographies for Prometheus Books. Her short stories appear in several fiction anthologies and her
essay, “When I was Young,” was included in Penguin Books’ Vietnam Voices. A number of her screenplays have been produced by small,
independent companies. Her essay “Autumn of 9/11” was awarded first prize in
The Brooklyn Public Library’s 2004 “My Brooklyn” contest. Her works, Weekender and Moving Pictures, were included in the Rosendale Theatre
Collective’s first annual Short Play Festival. Gigante-Brown was born and bred in Brooklyn, New York, where she
still lives with her husband and son. Her novels The El (2012) and Different
Drummer (2015) are available from Volossal Publishing.
An exciting development is that a
director recently approached Catherine about writing a musical version of DD for the
stage, which She is doing right now.
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