RaveLos Angeles Review of Books... a masterpiece ... The narrative is brilliantly twined out of three strands ... Jeffers develops a robust interrogation of classism, racism, colorism, and sexism that powerfully extends du Bois’s concept of \'double consciousness.\' Yet for all its intellectual ambition, The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois is an exceedingly human novel. Its characters, even its heroine, are messy and make terrible choices despite wanting to do good ... Honorée Fanonne Jeffers shows herself, with this novel, to be a glowing, confident storyteller. Her work is an invitation to a conversation and a reckoning of hard truth ... It is the responsibility of every American to remedy misjudgment with knowledge, and this magnificent novel offers a wealth of resources to begin this task.
S. D. Chrostowska
RaveThe RuptureThe majority of the novel is dedicated to the exposition of Chevauchet\'s oneiric ideas, his manifesto, and his plans for revolution. The rhetoric is thus built on ethos more than pathos, stimulating thought more than emotion ... Mimetically, the book, too, is serialized into small sips of chapters, emulating the narrator\'s processing and synthesis of his sage\'s information. The brevity of the book enhances the concentration of its thesis. The unnamed narrator becomes our guide, just as Chevauchet is his ... We get lines of sharp imagery delivered in luscious prose ... The Eyelid, in its very title, evokes that thin fold that separates wakefulness and dreaming. That veil between two worlds.
