- T. Geronimo Johnson, author of The Occidental Book of the Dead and Welcome to Braggsville

“In this deeply felt novel, as the world increasingly rejects the aptly named Harmony, Harmony’s Black female body increasingly rejects the world. As tensions mount, Harmony becomes an oracle for us all; both a warning and an inspiration; a prism elucidating the connections between social expectations and spiritual turmoil, between power and stress, and between racism and illness, forcing us to ask whether it’s the individual who is ill, or the society.”