“The most refreshing voice in the black idiom since readers first discovered Toni Morrison.” -Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land
“One is quickly beguiled . . . so gracefully to Miss Naylor fuse together the epic and the naturalistic, the magical and the real.” –The New York Times
“With Linden Hills, Naylor has constructed a place for herself among the leading contemporary writers of fiction.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Every page contains a brilliant insight, a fine description, some petty and human, some grandiloquent.” –Chicago Tribune