PositiveThe Times Literary SupplementThe aim of Heads of the Colored People seems to be to carve out space for fuller, more inclusive portraits of black interiority and experience. Though the prose can feel unpolished at times, the characters’ observations are delivered with clarity and precision; their responses to tragic situations are often filled with humor. Elsewhere in the collection, race is treated incidentally, which compels the reader to wonder what a literary landscape would look like if this were the norm.
