[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]BY Nelson Pressley | PUB The Washington Post Ruth P. Watson’s 2012 novel, “Blackberry Days of Summer,” is now a bluesy new musical called “Blackberry Daze,” and that change of spelling in the title foreshadows more bafflement and confusion than was probably intended.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]Watson’s semi-mystery, with struggles and triumphs evoking […]
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