Wonderful... A triumph
New York Times
Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her
Guardian
Deeply perceptive...Returns risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel
New York Times Book Review
Toni Morrison's writing is a train that knows where it's going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description
Sunday Times
Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability
New York Times
It takes one to the sheer edge of human relationships
Vogue
Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language...One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison' s story
Washington Post
Mercurial imagination and brilliantly elegant prose-She has the ability to shock and entrance, episode by episode, which is the hallmark of a genuine writer
Guardian
That rare commodity, a truly public novel... Morrison' s genius lies in her uncanny ability to immerse you totally in the world she creates
Newsweek
Wise, beautiful, astonishing, absolutely breathtaking
St Louis Globe-Democrat