“…an immense, brooding crime novel rooted in the tragic racial history of the American South … surely one of the longest, most successfully sustained works of popular fiction in recent memory. Make no mistake, these three volumes constitute a single story, a vast, intimate epic that must be read in sequence and in full. And if the prospect of committing to a narrative spanning 2,300 pages seems daunting, prepare to be surprised … Few novelists have conveyed so viscerally the incomprehensible cruelty to which victims of white supremacists were subjected for so long. Few have so convincingly explored the atavistic impulses that underlie racial violence … the capstone to what could legitimately be called a magnum opus.”
–Bill Sheehan, The Washington Post, March 22, 2017
