bThe mysterious true story of Connie Converse--a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition--and the tale of one man's quest to understand her lifeb pThis is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and iNew Yorkeri contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse's voice on a bootleg 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 spurred on by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell that exploded a decade later. pAnd then there was the bizarre legend about Connie Converse that had become the prevailing narrative among those who had also discovered her music that in 1974, at the age of fifty, she simply drove off one day and was never heard from