Restoration

Praise

"Deftly mixes history, mystery and a little romance with serious questions of race and identity. . . . Entertaining . . . . Provocative and illuminating." —The Philadelphia Inquirer

Compelling, complex characters doing interesting things while working through important emotional and philosophical issues—this is the stuff of genuine literature. . . . The narrative flows rich and smooth as chicory coffee at a Vieux Carre café.” —Booklist

“[M]asterfully ties together fact and fiction, imagined artists and real, to create an understanding of Southern art in the 1930s and 1940s, and the society that art reflects.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

“Mr. Bradley brings clarity and a measured lyricism to the writing of fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review