"A fresh new voice in fiction." –O, The Oprah Magazine
"Jackson's poetic prose is a joy to read . . . The ways mother and son grapple with social judgment and limited choices are provocative and timely." –
Booklist "I was touched by characters whose lives were often as real for me as my memories of growing up. The language invented to tell their stories engages, challenges, clarifies the American language, claiming it, enlarging it." –
John Edgar Wideman, author of Fanon, Philadelphia Fire, and Brothers and Keepers "A writer to be reckoned with;
The Residue Years marks the beginning of a most promising career." –
Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones and Men We Reaped
