Grace: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Superlative, gorgeously written…[and] scorchingly brilliant.”

  — Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author

• “[An] immersive tale…You’ll believe every word.”

  — People

• “A multigenerational story about strong women in one of the darkest eras of American history.”

  — Redbook

• “Deón…writes with her nerves, generating terrific suspense…It’s Ms. Deón’s real and rare ability to make reading a felt, almost physical experience…Deón is a graphic and unsparing storyteller.”

  — New York Times

• “[A] haunting portrait of slavery, love, and violence.”

  — Newsday

• “Reminds us of the power of motherhood and the idea of freedom.”

  — Elite Daily

• “Deón is a writer of great talent, using lyrical language and convincing, unobtrusive dialect to build portraits of each tragic individual as the sprawling story moves to its redemptive end.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)

• “Adroit characterizations, a powerful narrative voice, and the propulsive plotting of a suspense novel.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “This is the violent, terrifying world of the antebellum South…Vivid imagery, deft characterization, and spellbinding language carry the reader through this suspenseful…haunting, visceral novel.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “There are moments of love in this harsh, affecting first novel, but the story mostly conveys the taking of personal freedom and human dignity.”

  — Library Journal

• “A swirling wild ride into the sheer terror of slavery…The women and men in this novel transcend all notions of what we’ve read before.”

  — Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here

• “A book that sustains a murder ballad’s intensity for hundreds of pages and gets into your bones like a song.”

  — Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me