Indie Reader recently shared their review of Silver Echoes,
Based on the true story of the Tabor family and the Matchless silver mine, Rebecca Rosenberg’s SILVER ECHOES follows prodigal daughter Rose Mary Echo “Silver Dollar” Tabor—whose suspicious and untimely death invited both salacious rumor and tragic grief.
With her father Horace dead and her mother (the famed “Baby Doe” Tabor) struggling to turn a profit from the sluggish silver mine, Silver Dollar sets off to regain the family’s prestige through showbiz. Although she has her eyes on the burgeoning movie scene in Hollywood, fate sends her reeling through the bars and nightclubs of Colorado.
The history of the Tabor family is tied to mining, but Silver Dollar’s story is that of America’s postwar struggles through the ‘20s. SILVER ECHOES goes far on brilliant, incisive moments of natural beauty—the sight of the moon hanging like “a sliver of bone in the obsidian sky,” or “the sharp tang of pine mingled with the sweet, earthy scent of sage.” But it hits its stride in the smoky whiskey-and-gin joints of a Colorado not far removed from its 19th-century roots. The protagonist’s first-person chapters are particularly vivid. When she complains that “My underarms smelled like gin, my tongue tasted like Brillo pads, [and] my insides felt raw as ground beef,” the reader’s imagination—and stomach—are effectively piqued. This novel also leans into the sheer picturesque interest of its setting: an urban underworld where an American silver heiress moonlights as a dancer in Chinese nightclubs, rubbing elbows with as many Italian and Irish gangsters as Hollywood producers.
For fans of this brand of noir-tinged historical fiction, SILVER ECHOES has much to offer.
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GOLD DIGGER and SILVER ECHOES by historical novelist Rebecca Rosenberg are available now at Amazon
