The Cincinnati Rain (The Ocra Trilogy)

The second book, the gray novel, takes place in the truth of imagination in a far lost summer ago among four people. The stars had named them Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. Four young lives of two black and two white people crossing one another in a single Eisenhower season of violence, love, music, genius, art and murder, when Cincinnati was old-fashioned and dowdy, and Ted Kluzewski was young.