Darktown Strutters

A mystical, musical novel in the spirit of Ralph Ellison. Darktown Strutters takes readers on a surreal journey through 19th-century America and far beyond. Jim Crow lives. Blackface is just beginning. And America is just as wild, strange, and divided as it is today.

“A vivid, disturbing work of the historical imagination.”
– New York Times Book Review

“Written in hot, jazzy language and filled with lively characters, this small book is dynamite.”
– Library Journal

A scary book, and mordantly funny too.”
– Russell Banks

"Darktown Strutters is a novel of ideas devoted to exploring the complex fate off black and white Americans caught, as ever, in a racial history they can neither surmount nor escape.”
– Eric Lott, African American Review