RaveFull Stop\"I began this novel overly confident I had traversed similar paths before, so would be able to quickly find my footing within Williams’s rich prose ... The Changeling turns you inside out until you’re dazed, malleable, rerouted. It’s awash in Biblical, folkloric, and occult allusions, a choice that approximates the overlapping lines and exchanges between these beliefs. The language is ornate, colloquial, prophetic, foul, winking. There hangs a mood of a gothic sermon transforming into a fleshy, consuming poem. By novel’s end, you’ve been swallowed up and spat out, doused in stinging wetness and covered in luminescent fur ... he narrative unfolds like a psychotic break, leading you into a heightened sense of consciousness and relation. The novel’s logic makes a mockery of our own, shifting whenever you try to hold it firmly.\
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
RaveThe Rumpus\"The stories can be heavy in mood but the prose cackles with puckering humor and a heart-centered engagement in the idiosyncratic pulses of consciousness and feeling ... The experience of reading this collection overlaps with the act of TV channel surfing: we arrive in the middle of, must get acclimated and settled in before an abrupt change to something new. The dialogue is bubbly and sardonic, full of sly twists and dramatic reveals ... Thompson-Spires’s collection brings to mind the work of Kathleen Collins, Danzy Senna, and Renee Simms. Their writing shares a tactile reverence for the emotional, spiritual, and psychic experiences of precocious black woman. They also contain uproarious one-liners, a fearless dive into the core of the moment (attended by an ironic sense of what has come before), and a tender patience given to the unruly desires of flawed, eccentric characters.\
