Critical Praise

"Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer."

——The New York Times Book Review

"A jubilant novel . . . [An] evocative family tale of love, passion, and forgiveness."

——San Francisco Chronicle

"[THIS] POWERFUL STORY IS ABOUT LOVE, FORGIVENESS, PASSION AND BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF."

——Detroit Free Press

"Hugely Original, By The Light of My Father's Smile has mor than a hint of incantatory magic about it. . . . Light explores what happens--to an entire family--when a daughter cannot forgive her father for a single, hypocritical, soul-crushing act. It explores the dangerous bonds of fidelity between sisters, lovers, memories. . . . Walker's language is sensual and at the same time delightfully precise. . . . Political, immodest, astonishing by turns, [this novel] once again demonstrates Walker's gigantic talent."

——The Baltimore Sun

"Provocative...a beguiling story of difficult father-daughter bonds and star-crossed lovers.."

——People

"[By the Light of My Father's Smile] fulfills a reader's need for wisdom...written in at least two dimensions and across decades.."

——Los Angeles Times Book Review