Those Bones Are Not My Child

A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders -- Toni Morrison
A full-bloodied, important book and an eloquent final testament of a writer whose art was always dictated to by her humanity and sense of justice -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
These Bones Are Not My Child isn't just a gripping thriller; it's a masterwork of American literature * Harper's Bazaar *
Bambara has produced both a human drama and a steely report on contemporary society. . .admirable * The Times *
Bambara's achievement - in this masterly work - is to voice this sense of loss, to give full human dimension to events that for too long many of us flashed by like billboards at highway speed * New York Times Book Review *
Captures for all time a nightmare of private hate and public racism * Independent on Sunday *
A woolly mammoth of a novel, truly worthy of being called an epic, a book with great big feet that sometimes take ponderous steps but that always hit the ground with the sound of thunder * Chicago Tribune *
Riveting... A carefully crafted mystery [that is] difficult to put down * Boston Globe *
Toni Cade Bambara's writing is so great it lifts you off the ground * New Statesman *
Nobody writes with her breathtaking humor, empathy, ferocity, and surrealness... As a writer, her observation and humanity are timeless. As a reader, I release myself into Ms. Toni's sure and steady hands, knowing every part of me will be illuminated by her gaze -- Adjoa Andoh