Elegant, vigorous ... The author dodges the pitfalls of nostalgia and sentimentality; his anecdotes crackle with immediacy ... His eye on pacing and detail, he charts the intellectual odysseys of his cast, upending our expectations ... An extraordinary achievement in narrative nonfiction.
This enticing mix of personal and general history of Black utopian safe spaces promises to engage readers interested in reckoning with the past and present of Black American experiences and milestones.
