Sarah Schulman is a brilliant visionary, and this is a book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago

A scathing and darkly hilarious apocalypse-now

Strong, nervy and challenging

Startlingly powerful

A witty, angry and anguished novel

The questions that the novel stages about action, complicity, and discomfort are evergreen, but they resonate with particular force for any American trying to figure out their relationship to Trump and Trumpism now

This is the first work of fiction I've read about AIDS that portrays the enormous activist response the epidemic has generated...Schulman's people are fighters...terrifically inspiring examples of the human spirit's passion for revival

This emotional book won't make the walls of repression crumble, but it might make you understand this painful, hopeful moment better

Redemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous

Books of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone

Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as an important public intellectual and perhaps America's most incisive thinker about race.

Slavery, forgetting and memory are at the heart of Coates's ambitious, compelling first novel...

A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale

High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting