Critical Praise

"Tayari Jones is one of the finest writers of her generation."

——Pearl Cleage, author of Babylon Sisters

"An impressive return to Atlanta, following Tayari Jones's award-winning debut novel…will stir readers to evaluate their own lives, and be resolved to the fact that life is what it is."

——Black Issues Book Review

"Jones is a remarkable novelist, able to face down the tragedies of life with the clarity and beauty and even the dark humor of a true artist…A flat-out brilliant writer."

——Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

"Sometimes wry, sometimes poignant, always honest…Jones is a keen guide…her descriptions have an almost tender quality. In the end, Aria has managed to acquire both dignity and sympathy, and THE UNTELLING has worked a most…welcome charm."

——Washington Post Book World

"Succeeds mightily...truly a wonderful story. Jones is a talent to be reckoned with."

——Boston Globe

"Convincing and genuine."

——Publishers Weekly

"A story of deep hurt and slow realization, injury and recovery, and the way people genuinely change their lives. I love it."

——Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina