PanChicago Review of BooksAn odd duck ... In transforming research into fiction, Hurston stumbles ... The result, while painstaking, is less than successful as a novel. Details come fast and thick, and a reader’s eye can’t help but spin at the parade of characters and confusing tangle of family lineages.
Mark Haddon
RaveChicago Review of BooksIt is through Haddon’s power as a storyteller—his sharp, surprising images and dizzying observations—that we glimpse these moments of mythic insight, obliteration, and transformation in both ancient times and our own, with all the terror and inevitability of a myth.
