Lone Women

ERIK GLEIBERMANN, THE WASHINGTON POST

"...He adroitly intertwines the eerie fairy tale with early 20th-century historical realism ... LaValle subtly links Lone Women to an African American literary storyline envisioning a woman who unshackles herself from a societal yoke long weighed upon her. By replanting this narrative with small-town Southern roots into a Western self-reliance tale, while mixing in the deranged, the author has fashioned an eccentrically satisfying literary mash-up."

HAMILTON CAIN, THE STAR TRIBUNE

"Mesmerizing ... A master of the speculative mode, LaValle opens Lone Women with carnage ... Lone Women shifts from the grandiosity of LaValle's The Changeling...to a prose spare and vast, prairie-like, yet steeped in menace ... He brings the creepiness to a boil in a few beautifully crafted scenes ... LaValle expands his repertoire as an audacious, thrilling stylist."