“Music comes to a tuberculosis hospital in the prohibition-era American South in this absorbing historical, based on a real Louisville sanatorium operating at the turn of the 20th century"—Publishers Weekly

"Markert has interwoven three seemingly unrelated subjects—tuberculosis, music, and racism—into a hauntingly lyrical narrative with operatic overtones… a soaring tribute to the resiliency of life in the face of death."
- Booklist

“James Markert skillfully weaves together medicine and history, a tragic love story, and a spiritual investigation into the relationship between faith and music. The result is a compelling and thought-provoking novel that will move and inspire readers of all kinds.”
—John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road and Northwest Corner

“Beautifully told…With a historian’s eye for detail, Markert spins his story of a world where men and women were healed and made whole.”
—Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South

"Set in the time of Prohibition and segregation, this novel brings to life the desperation of the plague that as yet had no cure... I couldn’t put down this story of a doctor’s struggle with faith, hope and healing. In the end, I not only learned about that time in history, but it vividly came alive."
- The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"James Markert... has taken the exceptional and amazing setting of “one of the scariest places on earth, the Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and produced an absorbing novel about the place, its inhabitants and the times."
- The Louisville Courier-Journal

"The author's ability to weigh competing views against each other, and the all-too-real human complications, are presented with a remarkable understanding of conflicting ideas that makes even villains human eventually... The author writes well and reads easily; you'll finish this book in a day or two and wish for a sequel."
- BookPage

“Music, a TB sanatorium, racism, love—what more could one want in a novel? Markert combines them all in A White Wind Blew, in a dramatic, beguiling tale that brings you right into its core.” —Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT