Looking for Jazz tells the story of Anna, a young white midwestern woman who takes a job teaching at a black college in a small Georgia town in 1968 as her husband begins his advanced Army training at Fort Benning. The Vietnam War, voter registration of blacks, and forced public school integration provide the political context. Anna enjoys teaching her students as she learns the culture of the region and the college. After four years, her first marriage ends. She begins life with a black Vietnam veteran from the town and they go away to school in Ohio. Anna returns to her job at the college three years later, and the couple remains in the South where they will raise their two sons.
