"Brilliantly idiosyncratic... For half a century, Ishmael Reed has been American literature's most fearless satirist." -The New Yorker "Part vision, part satire, part farce...A wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction and witchcraft." -The New York Times "A dazzling classic ... exhilarating ... like jazz, the novel feels improvisatory and ambitious [...] It is a funny book about conspiracy theories that nonetheless feels serious and true. A philosophical and ingenious American race satire." -Guardian "From its title on, Mumbo Jumbo serves as a critique of black and Western literary forms and conventions, and of the complex relationships between the two." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Author of The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song "Brilliant, phantasmal, eccentric...A visionary comic myth." -The Boston Globe "A 'HooDoo' thriller, an all-out assault on Western civilization...Reed's best novel." -The Saturday Review "A great writer." -James Baldwin
