"A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told."–
Marlon James"Magisterial."–Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books
"Ancestral curses often 'explain' a group's essential character. But Makumbi inverts that conceit: What if a curse expressed all the ways that families, cities and nations fail to cohere?"–Julian Lucas, The New York Times
"With a novel that is inventive in scope, masterful in execution, she does for Ugandan literature what Chinua Achebe did for Nigerian writing."–Lesley Nneka Arimah, The Guardian
"A masterpiece of cultural memory, Kintu is elegantly poised on the crossroads of tradition and modernity."–Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
