«Riveting storytelling. This incandescent work speaks not just to the moment, but to history»

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

«A badass debut by any measure - nimble, knowing, and electrifying»

Colson Whitehead, twice-Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and THE NICKEL BOY

«An electric new literary voice»

Esquire

«Absolutely unforgettable. Johnson's prose soars to remarkable heights»

Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of HUNGER and AYITI

«Unputdownable... Extraordinarily powerful... One of the finest books of 2021 and a future classic»

The Bookseller, Book of the Month