Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?

There’s nothing mysterious about Cosmic Ordering, it’s simply a method used to transmute thought into reality.

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

I play all my own instruments. I write my own material. And I do not lip-synch. I sing live.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

International unity of the workers is more important than the national.