Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Characters in No Marble Angels struggle to close distances between each other, distances of race, sex, age.
A valuable philosophical or political acquisition as well as a literary one . should be sought out and read.-Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times
The stories remind me of both I.B. Singer and Flannery O'Conner-compelling.-John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am
Readers casually picking up . No Marble Angels might think they have stumbled into Anne Tyler's world . gems of clean, direct narrative.-Baltimore Sun
With wonderfully wry humor, Leedom-Ackerman depicts the kind of good will that ends up causing trouble for others . a refined sense of craft is evident in all the stories.-Library Journal