By Love Possessed: Stories
&#8220;A matchless mosaic portrait. . . . A perfect complement to her evocative, widely admired memoir. . . . The voices come vividly off the page. . . . [Goodison] taps deeply into universal experience and offers up these lives with brutal honesty and poignant humanism.&#8221; (Elle)&#8220;Every tale . . . introduces characters that will sustain your interest far more than novels with twice the length and none of the panache of Goodison&#8217;s sparkling prose.&#8221; (Essence)&#8220;Alternating between flat-out humor, aching pain, and the confusion of bridging cultures, [these] stories weave around one another in a rhythmic, engaging palette of language and characters sure to remain with the reader.&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;[A] captivating and poetic collection.&#8221; (Library Journal)&#8220;Goodison deals with the physical world and the words flung between her powerful characters&#151;she&#8217;s scoring a dance. . . . It&#8217;s an addictive game to play, paying attention to the silences in the songs.&#8221; (Daily Beast)&#8220;A beautifully written and evocative book. . . . Goodison finds a glittering and urgent beauty in the everyday, without shying away from a frank confrontation of those moments when the everyday is shattered by trauma.&#8221; (Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool SelfDanielle Evans, author ofBefore You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self)&#8220;Few writers are as attuned as Goodison to the heartaches and triumphs of Jamaicans, especially Jamaican women. . . . Fewer writers still tell us so much about what it means to be human.&#8221; (Elizabeth Nunez, author ofProspero's DaughterandBoundaries)&#8220;How Lorna Goodison manages to capture so much about human complexities in these stories is baffling. I just love this book.&#8221; (Uwem Akpan, author ofSay You're One of Them)