Critical Praise

"Gloria Naylor's is a commanding fictional voice: sonorous, graceful, sometimes piercing, often spellbinding.At its best it's the kind of voice that moves you as if you were dreaming. "

———The Washington Post

"Gloria Naylor brings an ability to look into the mirror of souls that reflect black experience and to extract richly crafted characterizations that are prototypes rather than stereotypes. Instinctively, we know these people. "