Prodigy, But There’s a Catch
Andrea Avery started piano lessons while still a little girl. Wonderful things happened right away. Her fingers raced over the keys. Her brain understood the tricks to be performed. Her heart fell hard for Mozart and then Schubert. The trouble came on all the nights, all the mornings, when Avery woke up stiff, swollen, overheated. Her mother, a nurse, took copious notes of every [...]