Young Ray's mother never encouraged his delight in the violin, but his grandmother loved to hear him play, and insisted he take his grandfather's fiddle.Īlthough caked with years of rosin and missing a chin piece and a bridge, Ray sees the violin's worth and cobbles together money for its repair. A violinist, performer and lifelong music teacher, in his online biography he says that becoming a musician saved his life: "Friends grew up with are today sitting in jail when they were out running the streets, was in rehearsals." The author's protagonist Rayquan (Ray) McMillian has had a similar trajectory.
Polemic rarely works in fiction, and that's for a very good reason: Fiction begets empathy, and polemic encourages attack.īut in his debut thriller The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb employs polemic about racism to great effect as he reminds us that the high-toned world of classical music suffers from, and because, of racism.
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