After You've Gone is the title of an early jazz standard first recorded in 1918 and creates the tone for this novel which has at its heart both music and time. Set in Regina, Saskatchewan and Seattle, Washington, it is the destined story of two generations of musicians, a gypsy jazz guitarist grandmother and a punk rocker / songwriter granddaughter, who each struggle with balancing life, love, and art in their respective eras, and discover how much they have in common. It is a story of family ties welded through the passion for music and performance that only those who pursue such a path can truly understand.