The weight of a piano

"In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed . . . a Bl?thner piano, . . . on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America . . . and her piano is lost in the shuffle. In 2012, in . . . California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, which is complicated by the gift her father had given her . . . shortly before he and her mother died in a fire: . . . a Bl?thner upright she has never learned to play. Orphaned, she was raised by her aunt and uncle, who in his car-repair shop trained her to become a first-rate mechanic . . . But this work, her true mainstay in a scattered life, is put on hold when her hand gets broken while the piano's being moved--and in sudden frustration she chooses to sell it. And what becomes crucial is who the most interested party turns out to be . . ."--OCLC.