Ours
Phillip B. Williams
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Ours
Phillip B. Williams
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
So vivid a glimpse into the lives of formerly enslaved people that it reads with the beauty and urgency of a spoken word poem.
Deeply absorbing.
A bold, ambitious, often beguiling piece of work – an epic folk tale of Black American emancipation. But the tale’s prolonged scenic ramble demands stamina and resolve.
Ours joins a canon of similar works that have appeared in recent years, such as Jesmyn Ward’s recent novel Let Us Descend and Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 The Underground Railroad… By taking such care to document the horrors of slavery alongside the ‘freedom [his characters] deserve’, Williams seems to offer the possibility of a world beyond trauma.”.
...a vast and rapturous feat of fabulism.
Ambitious and lyrical.
A gorgeously written, evocative saga of Black American survival and transcendence, blending elements of fantasy, mythology, and multigenerational history.