"In Angela Jackson's new novel, love (of another, of a truth, of a place, of a cause) is courage: through obstacles, failures, frustrations, and enemies, it searches for its way forward. A blind man becomes sighted, a silent woman speaks the deep truths, many persons seek out their roles in an era of crisis, and the reader becomes the intimate witness of a realm both real and imagined. Every chapter seems a fully realized and richly various world. Jackson's language is beyond compare–at times a beautiful down-home lyricism, at times metaphorical in a profound way." –Reginald Gibbons, Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University and author of Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories
