been a polemic about gender with a dollop of race thrown in for good measure. But Kay has taken the most tabloid topic possible and produced something at once more surprising and more subtle: a rumination on the nature of love and the endurance of a family". Time magazine called it a "hypnotic story ... about the walls between what is known and what is secret. Spare, haunting, dreamlike", and the San Francisco Chronicle commented that "Kay's imaginative leaps in story and language will remind some readers of a masterful jazz solo". Matt Richardson, in examining the novel's transgender subjectivity and use of a Jazz aesthetic, noted that "as a form that encourages the transformation of standard melodies into multiple improvised creations, jazz is useful in expanding our conceptualization of the potential for Black people to recreate ourselves and our gender identities in a diasporic practice". In his analysis, Richardson also notes the influences of African American culture on other Black populations, notably Black British people. He writes, "Kay is not the first British lesbian of African descent to adopt African American history and cultural aesthetics in her strategic representation of British queerness.” Richardson writes specifically about the Black British filmmaker Inge Blackman's documentary "B.D. Women", which references a Harlem speakeasy during the 1920s and 1930s. The Blues are also a prominent feature in Blackman's documentary. Richardson's analysis notes that both Kay's and Blackman's works were produced in the context of the African diaspora where race, gender, and sexuality inform their works. Awards and nominations Trumpet was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Authors' Club First Novel Award in 2000, and won in the Transgender category at the 2000 Lambda Literary Awards. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, also in 2000. Adaptations Kay served as advisor to Grace Barnes, director of Skeklers Theatre Company, in her stage adaptation of Trumpet. The stage version was performed in the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in 2005. Publication history Copyright 1998 by Jackie Kay, Trumpet was originally published by Picador (Great Britain) in 1998, and Pantheon Books (New York). It was published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc. (New York), in 2000. Bibliography References External links "An Interview with Jackie Kay", Random House. Trumpet, 1998 - Information about the Book, swisseduc.ch Theatre Record. "A breath of fresh air for Trumpet", Scotsman, 25 September 2005. (pg.