Jump at the Sun

      “Lowe has written what may well be the Hurston book for the
        years to come.” — Werner Sollors, Harvard University
      “Lowe’s study . . . smartly begins with the assumption that one
        reason for the stunning popularity of Hurston’s work is the verve with
        which it addresses serious subjects in a comic style.” — Cheryl
        A. Wall, editor of Changing Our Own Essays on Criticism, Theory,
        and Writing by Black Women
      “Appreciative of Hurston’s ‘bodacious’ humor, Lowe argues that she
        is ‘a profoundly serious, experimental, subversive, and therefore unsettling
        artist.’ . . . Strongly recommended.” — Choice
      “A trailblazing effort, a work that will enrich our understanding
        of Hurston’s fiction.” — William R. Nash, The Southern Literary
        Journal
      “The most important booklength contribution to Hurston scholarship
        since Robert Hemenway published his biography in 1978.” — Will Brantley,
        Contemporary Literature