RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewBoth a memoir and an examination of race relations in America ... Reads like both a travelogue of the journey toward that soul — largely an interior journey — and, with its descriptions of Smith’s spiritual practices, a rite to conjure that soul ... Much of what is so finely done in Smith’s memoir can be seen in the sentences quoted above: the musicality of her prose ... Smith’s plea that the woman will sing a new song.
