"Francis Spufford is a literary sorcerer with one of the great imaginations of our time. When a new book lands, I drop everything and start reading.
Cahokia Jazz takes us to an America that wasn't... a wilder, richer, altogether more enchanting America. Bullets and beatings provide the percussion to Spufford's hothouse jazz noir, while hope and heartbreak do a dizzying, drunken foxtrot together. I can't remember the last time suspense and spiritual longing were so tightly braided together in a single novel. A masterpiece." –
Joe Hill "Stylish and ambitious ... [Spufford's] most crowd-pleasing novel yet." –
The Times "A taut, unguessable whuddunit, painted in ultrablack noir. . . . It's got gorgeously described jazz music, a richly realized modern indigenous society, and a spectacular romance. . . . amazing . . . a book that fires on every cylinder." –
Cory Doctorow "The book is itself Cahokia jazz; the play of possibilities beyond the linear progression of the tune we all already know, that goes to wild places and then winds back, beautifully, heartbreakingly, to echo the notes of where it started." –
Jo Baker, bestselling author of Longbourn "
Cahokia Jazz is a delight." –
Sunday Telegraph "Francis Spufford has discovered a new riff on a favorite tune, and in exploring it has created something wholly unique.
Cahokia Jazz is extraordinary." –
Mick Herron, author of Slow Horses