Jewell Parker Rhodes is the recipient of a Yaddo Creative Writing Fellowship and the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction. She is professor of creative writing and American literature and Director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, AZ.
"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against
hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the
best."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A mystical tale, full of spirits....an exciting and moving
novel...plunging through complex ideas and relationships without
neglecting any of them."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Jewell Parker Rhodes's characters hover. They dance and sing and
cry and whisper secrets in your ear."--Emerge
"Magic City is a victory against amnesia. One will remember Tulsa,
1921! This book captures the literary magic of a woman who is fast
becoming a bright and shining star. Not even Houdini could create
more wonder."--E. Ethelbert Miller, editor of In Search of Color
Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry
"Magic City is one of those fine novels that one reads not because
right makes might, because good does not triumph, but the book is
read because we need to remind ourselves of the sad failure to
safely, thoroughly, integrate America's human
community."--Flagstaff Review
"A combination of history, mystical happenings and murder makes
this a thrilling read."--Newton [Massachusetts] Tab
"As in Voodoo Dreams, Rhodes calls upon her talent for summoning up
the literary device called magical realism."--Mesa Tribune
"In Magic City, Jewell Parker Rhodes has made a tragic American
story come vividly to life and has made these people--black and
white and red, rich and poor, educated and illiterate--all achingly
human. Rhodes must be commended for bringing such an important
story front and center, and for making it as instructive and as
moving as it is horrific."--Randall Kenan, author of Let the Dead
Bury Their Dead and A Visitation of Spirits
"Jewell Parker Rhodes's Magic City takes an ugly chapter of
American history and turns it into a human tale of vulnerable
people with imperfect motives and skewed vision, people who
interact in dire ways with monumental consequences.... I could not,
would not put this book down, not even after its last searing
sentence."--Julianne Malveaux, author of Sex, Lies, and
Stereotypes
"We've seen Jewell Parker Rhodes use magic before to explore the
meanings of, and urge drama from, history, and her approach here to
the evocative and outrageous events of 1921 shows us that magic can
cut two ways. Rhodes writes about our common human plight with a
powerful dramatist's voice; she has created with Magic City a clear
open window on a rueful day."--Ron Carlson, author of Plan B for
the Middle Class
"With precise detail and fully drawn characters, Jewell Parker
Rhodes has created a novel that brings us closer to the truth about
our country and ourselves. These are the truths we should be
seeking. This is the place to find them."--Susan Straight, author
of I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots and The
Gettin Place
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