Dancing in the Dark Audiobook

Quotes

• “Phillips is amazing at rendering the wrenching contradictions of ‘playing the coon’ as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois became prominent…The whole is suffused in Phillips’s brilliant, if here filigreed, light.” 

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Phillips’ empathetic interpretation of the lives and dreams of four courageous individuals illuminates the thorny and persistent dilemmas of artists of color, who still must struggle to stay true to themselves as they pursue mainstream success…Phillips is in a league with Toni Morrison and V. S. Naipaul.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “His best work—cerebral, tender, masterful in its scope and vision.”

  — Miami Herald

• “Delicate, moving, dramatic…Phillips writes powerfully.” 

  — Washington Post Book World

• “An exquisitely moving novel…Only a writer as profoundly intuitive as Phillips could bring that shrouded history to light.” 

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Heartbreaking…[A] richly nuanced tone poem of a book.”

  — Entertainment Weekly