RL's dream

About “RL's dream”

RL's Dream is a novel centered on the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy, reflecting on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise, who is ill and dying, recounts his life and the profound impact of a brief encounter with Robert "RL" Johnson in the Mississippi delta to Kiki Waters, a young white woman who has taken him in.