It's 1941 Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski has dropped out of high school to support her family. Her dull factory job makes life one long dead end...until she meets neighborhood bad boy Paulie Suelze. Soon, Ruby learns how make money—lots of money—while wearing silk and satin and having the time of her life. Ruby's got it all figured out...but both secrets and bad boys are hard to keep, and pretty soon, swinging with the hepcats turns into swimming with the sharks. A mesmerizing look into a little-known world and era, Ten Cents a Dance is resplendent with soul-shaking jazz, killer '40s style, and the passions of a young generation on the eve of war.
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