RaveThe Atlantic[Laymon] take[s] on the important work of exposing the damage done to America, especially its black population, by the failure to confront the myths, half-truths, and lies at the foundation of the success stories that the nation worships ... As Roxane Gay says of her own struggles with appetite in Hunger, Laymon alternates between reaching for a sense of power and reaching for a salve for powerlessness ... Unlike the American Memoir, our stories must be honest. That is how we get free.
Casey Gerald
PositiveThe Atlantic\"Instead of continuing to smile and say thank you as he did for so many years, [Gerald] has written There Will Be No Miracles Here. [This book takes] on the important work of exposing the damage done to America, especially its black population ... Gerald [refuses] to trace a formulaic arc, whether of family dysfunction passed down or of children surging ahead and guaranteeing hope to those left behind.\
