Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Ghastly and funny and gloriously provocative…Johnson’s prose is by turns scathing dark humor, soaring lyricism, and a quietly devastating analysis of every species of injustice.”

  — Karen Russell, New York Times bestselling author

• “Transcendence is what Geronimo Johnson achieves in this remarkable novel. Every racial assumption is both acknowledged and challenged in ways at times hilarious, at other times poignant. Welcome to Braggsville is ambitious, wise, and brave.”

  — Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author

• “Combines Ben Fountain’s steely political eye, Junot Diaz’s pop-infused dogma, and Toni Morrison’s sense of social justice through historical reckoning. Big, shiny literary prizes were created for books like this one.”

  — Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author

• “Geronimo Johnson is a fearless and driven young writer of dazzling gifts. His books map American multiculture as a poignant and twisted human comedy in which nobody comes out clean…surprising, heartbreaking, tragicomic, and deeply disturbing.”

  — Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award–winning author of Lord of Misrule

• “A rollicking satire…Radical, hilarious, tragic, and all too relevant.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Like listening to an erudite satirist play the dozens in a marathon performance…Organic, plucky, smart, Welcome to Braggsville is the funniest sendup of identity politics, the academy, and white racial anxiety to hit the scene in years.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you’ll read this year. T. Geronimo Johnson plays cultural criticism like it’s acid jazz. His shockingly funny story pricks every nerve of the American body politic.”

  — Washington Post

• “In his second novel, Johnson delivers a funny and tragic coming-of-age story that spares no one its satirical eye…Johnson’s prose has a sketched-out and dreamlike quality, a private shorthand that adds to the feeling of intimacy, an apt trick when dealing with subject matter like race and class.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Johnson’s observations about race are both piercing and witty, making this edgy novel so much more complex than a send-up of the South and liberal academe…Those with a love for linguistic romps will want to take on this literary dark comedy.”

  — Library Journal

• “Four college students’ attempt to protest Southern folkways goes awry in a novel that blurs the line between academic satire and social realism…A rambunctious, irreverent yet still serious study of the long reach of American institutional racism.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Narrator MacLeod Andrews captures the essence of the audiobook with a slow delivery full of gravitas. His voice expresses knowing sarcasm and hints at the story’s comic darkness. He does an excellent job performing the many accents; his voice is clear, and his tone atmospheric. It’s a great book and a terrific performance.”

  — AudioFile

• “Combines the intellectual urgency of a satire with the emotional resonance of a tragedy. Welcome to Braggsville is as smart as it is subversive, and as bleakly hilarious as it is deeply necessary.”

  — Jennifer duBois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes