Praise for Victor LaValle
"If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, and threw in several fistfuls of twenty-first-century attitude, the result would be Victor LaValle."
–Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land "One of the reasons to read Victor LaValle's novels is the simple sentence-by-sentence pleasure of them–they offer hundreds of baby dopamine hits, tiny baths for the prose snob's reward system. His imagination is unusually visual. . . . If monsters are your subject, writing like an angel helps."
–The New York Times "Nobody is better at combining daily struggles and the supernatural than LaValle."
–Bookforum "LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist."
–The New Republic "Victor LaValle is one of the finest writers around–puzzling but never abstruse, compassionate but never pitying."
–Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
