Reviews

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction, by Octavia E. Butler, Grace Edwards-Yearwood, Colleen McElroy, John Edgar Wideman, Ishmael Reed, Wesley Brown, Charles R. Johnson, Randall Kenan, Clarence Major, Darryl Pinckney, Mary Monroe, Xam Wilson Cartier, Paule Marshall, Don Belton, David Bradley, William Demby, Fatima Shaik, Gayl Jones, Steven Corbin, J. California Cooper, Angela Jackson, Carolyn Cole, Ernest J. Gaines, Kristin Hunter Lattany, Toni Cade Bambara, Trey Ellis, Nathaniel Mackey, Wanda Coleman, Doris Jean Austin, Arthur Flowers, Melvin Dixon, Amiri Baraka, Richard Perry, Peter Harris, Samuel R. Delany, Connie Rose Porter, Tina McElroy Ansa, Percival L. Everett, Sandra Hollin Flowers, Becky Birtha, Bill Williams Forde, Marita Golden, Ntozake Shange, John McCluskey, Barbara Neely, Rita Dove, James Alan McPherson, William Melvin Kelley, Gloria Naylor, Terry McMillan, Safiya Henderson-Holmes

kimg1208's review

slow-paced

3.0

trin's review

2.0

Delightfully, viciously, righteously sharp -- but very, very broad, and unfortunately, rather scattered. I definitely recommend reading the recent New Yorker article about Kelley, which is fascinating and tragic. You can see a great deal of his talent even in this flawed novel, but it is clear he never got the editorial support he deserved.