Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University, and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her landmark books include Corregidora, Eva's Man, and The Healing, the last a National Book Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
“This book’s magic is different than that of its predecessor, yet
the spells they cast are comparably powerful.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“These are songs of longing and love, journeys of discovery and
wholeness, revelations about trauma’s deep impact on body and soul,
and simultaneous declarations of resistance and acceptance. Readers
enthralled by Palmares will enjoy the added dimensions here, while
others will be moved by the historical Black voices and oral
traditions Jones so powerfully evokes.”
—Booklist
“An exquisitely beautiful book-length poem, Song for Anninho, that
was set after the destruction of the community that would be the
subject of Palmares.”
—Farah Jasmine Griffin, The Nation
“Gayl Jones has concocted a tale as American as Mount Rushmore and
as murky as the Florida swamps.”
—Maya Angelou
“Miss Jones . . . is an American writer with a powerful sense of
vital inheritance, of history in the blood.”
—John Updike, The New Yorker
“A literary giant, and one of my absolute favorite writers.”
—Tayari Jones
“No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after
this.”
—Toni Morrison, on reading the manuscript for Corregidora
“Telling stories out loud was a matter of survival—and the way
Jones wields this tradition transforms even a nursery rhyme into
something dirty, dangerous, and important.”
—Calvin Baker, The Atlantic
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