Critical Praise

"Extraordinary. . . .Far surpassing Toni Morrison's works on this subject, it is the most important novel about race published in America since William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury."

——People

". . .a masterwork not only of white American fiction but of another divided whole, American literature."

——The New Yorker

"Massive, startlingly vivid, morally and intellectually challenging. . . ."

——People

"Nobody who reads the first chapters of Cloudsplitter can doubt that Banks has found his big subject. It is surely his best novel, a furious, sprawling drama that commands attention like thunder heard from just over the horizon."

——Time