Five-Carat Soul

Brash, daring and defiantly original … [these] stories are bound to stay with readers for a very long time * NPR *A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places * San Francisco Chronicle *McBride is such an agile writer that each voice feels authentic and somehow familiar … These are stories of and from the soul * Minneapolis Star-Tribune *McBride delivers pure gold… Five-Carat Soul shakes with laughter, grips with passion and oozes wisdom * Shelf Awareness (starred review) *Funny, strange and touching … McBride proves once again that he is a master conjurer of African Americana * Seattle Times *Unpredictable, exhilarating, and, often, hilarious … a wild and utterly delightful ride * BuzzFeed *

James McBride is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Oprah’s Book Club selection Deacon King Kong, the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, the million-copy-bestselling memoir The Colour of Water, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna, the story collection Five-Carat Soul, and Kill ‘Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal and an accomplished musician, McBride is also a distinguished writer in residence at New York University.