"Lowe has written what may well be the Hurston book for the

        years to come." -- Werner Sollors, Harvard University

      "Lowe's study . . . smartly begins with the assumption that one

        reason for the stunning popularity of Hurston's work is the verve with

        which it addresses serious subjects in a comic style." -- Cheryl

        A. Wall, editor of Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory,

        and Writing by Black Women

      "Appreciative of Hurston's 'bodacious' humor, Lowe argues that she

        is 'a profoundly serious, experimental, subversive, and therefore unsettling

        artist.' . . . Strongly recommended." -- Choice

      "A trailblazing effort, a work that will enrich our understanding

        of Hurston's fiction." -- William R. Nash, The Southern Literary

        Journal

      "The most important booklength contribution to Hurston scholarship

        since Robert Hemenway published his biography in 1978." -- Will Brantley,

        Contemporary Literature