The Weight of Bearing Witness

Overview

Jilly Wells. Flapper, heroin addict, glamorous movie star. How she ended up decapitated in a filthy alley in New York City has been a mystery for over seven decades. Only one person, former opera singer Nina Wentworth, now celebrating her one hundred and ninth birthday, really knows what happened that day when four women came together, and only three survived. It’s a story of survivorship, obsessive love, passion, fame, money, a brave butch, a closeted femme, and the unshakable, unbreakable bonds of friendship. It’s a story Nina has never told. Until now.