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Rave Reviews for What the Shadow Told Me

T. Coraghessan Boyle says:

"One wild ride of a novel. What the Shadow Told Me redefines the meaning of black humor."

Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow, says:

"Put an insider-mystery worthy of Dick Francis through a Dave Chappelle blender, and you’d get What the Shadow Told Me. Subversive, instructive, acutely observed, and funny as hell."

National Book Award winner Julia Glass says:

"An aggressive devil-may-care satire that flies like a scud missile in the face of political correctness, What the Shadow Told Me is viciously, wickedly, irreverently, sometimes obscenely funny. The novel skewers publishing, academia, literary translation, feminism, artistic acclaim, podiatry, southern cooking, rural Alabama, rap music, modern fatherhood, single motherhood, resting on your laurels, literary schadenfreude, paternity suits, pornography, tell-all TV, serial murders, Kwanzaa, and—though admittedly this has become a broad and easy target—the ego of Harold Bloom."

George Garrett, author of Death of the Fox, says:

"Outrageous, always irreverent, often shocking, and sometimes, let’s face it, totally off-the-wall, What the Shadow Told Me summons up laughter from the first page to the last. Like a couple of old-timey buffalo hunters, the satirical authors slaughter a whole stampeding herd of clichés and sacred cows—the publishing industry, Hollywood, medicine, law, racism (pro and con), and our irredeemable celebrity culture (among other things), sharing with the delighted reader the great American way of free and unfettered scrutiny and the irrepressible comedy at the heart of everything."

The Greensboro News-Record says:

"Team KD has packed the pages with colorful characters, satire that could slash a set of tires, and heaps of absurdity…The authors push humor to the limit."

Style Weekly says:

"Reminiscent of ensemble films such as Robert Altman’s Nashville and Paul Haggis’ recently released Crash, the story weaves together the lives of a random collection of people into a tighter and tighter web through a series of remarkable coincidences. Witty writing and outrageous plot twists keep the hilarious adventure rollicking along. A Kwanzaa controversy, a barrage of flaming yams, a raunchy talk show, and a screenplay titled ‘Santa’s Bastards’ are just a few of the wacky elements tossed into the satiric mix."

BookPleasures.com says:

"Throughout the novel, the author [sic] succeeds in moving the spoof effortlessly from the larger to the smaller picture, often with side-splitting one-liners, hilarious dialogue mixed with black humor—all effectively paced within an unbelievable plot. And it is precisely this humor and wittiness that is the novel’s narrative engine, maintaining our interest until the last sentence."

The Blue Ridge Business Journal says:

"An irreverent, hilarious poke at sacred and not-so-sacred cows…The book takes broad shots at just about anything you can imagine, from Southern cooking to food doctors, outback Alabama to publishing houses, porn to podiatry."