RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewElegant and juicy ... Storytelling unafraid of poetry. Like a pudding, the prose here is both plain and rich ... It’s a lot, but it’s also gratifyingly lush. Griffiths gives us romance and romanticism.
Karen Valby
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewIf it were just a quest for cultural redress, the result might have been a dusty scroll of the Swans’ ballet bona fides. It’s by getting personal that it leaps high ... All of this is absorbing. Yet it’s the odd details that shine brightest ... Precisely because there’s so much meaning and humanity in this kind of minutiae, it has been methodically clipped from stories of Black women’s lives.
