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Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for best biography. The mysterious true story of Connie Converse - a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition - and one writer's quest to understand her life. This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse's voice on a recording, he was convinced she could not be real. Her recordings were too good not to know, and too out of place for the 1950s to make sense - a singer who seemed to bridge the gap between traditional Americana (country, blues, folk, jazz, and gospel) , the Great American Songbook, and the singer-songwriter movement that exploded a decade later with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell.