[A] refreshingly idiosyncratic novel that manages to wear its seriousness lightly without ever losing sight of its significance ... Jones plays with language — as much as character and plot — to illustrate the restorative nature of imagination ... Jones reveals herself one of our most important American novelists.
Almost every detail is freighted with double meaning. And like much of Jones’s work, The Unicorn Woman also toys with time, dreams and memory, which crash into the narrative. I found it all sophisticated, rich, insightful — and frustratingly measured ... An exercise in restraint ... This novel doesn’t feel as alive as her previous books. The Unicorn Woman is smart, and immaculately constructed, but compared with the other titles in Jones’s catalog, this one feels minor, secondary.
Captures this sense of disconnection and disillusionment in the context of the African American veteran experience ... The novel’s biggest asset is its strong narrative voice.
