Critical Praise

"Extraordinary. . . .Far surpassing Toni Morrison's works on this subject, it is the most important novel about race published in America since William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury."

——People

"Nobody who reads the first chapters of Cloudsplitter can doubt that Banks has found his big subject. It is surely his best novel, a furious, sprawling drama that commands attention like thunder heard from just over the horizon."

——Time

". . .a masterwork not only of white American fiction but of another divided whole, American literature."

——The New Yorker

"Massive, startlingly vivid, morally and intellectually challenging. . . ."

——People