“This book reads like a ghost story, a murder mystery, a thriller, a redemptive love story that never loses its knife edge of danger. . . A daring and masterful novel about how we respond to the mystery of death.”—Kiran Desai, Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss
 
“What seems at first a meditation on family trauma unfolds through the urgency of an amnesiac puzzle-thriller, then a violently compelling love story. The Furrows is a genuine tour de force.”—Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn
 
“In Namwali Serpell’s hands, grief is a kind of possession. The Furrows is a piercing, sharply written novel about the conjuring power of loss.”—Raven Leilani, New York Times bestselling author of Luster

“Namwali Serpell’s riveting prose urges me to believe that sometimes the true work of grief is to rupture us so thoroughly, we become capable of telling—and living—another story.”—Tracy K. Smith, author of the Pulitzer prize-winner Life on Mars

“A deeply felt novel that deserves to be read.. . . [a] sweeping, gut-wrenching tale of loss, grief, and identity.”—Nicole Dennis-Benn, award-winning author of Patsy and Here Comes the Sun

“Beautifully written . . . it blew me away.”—Zoë Wicomb, author of You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town

“Who could have imagined that a novel about loss and long grieving could be so soaring, so sexy, so luminously beautiful and poetic, such a rich and shimmeringly scored piece for three voices?”—Neel Mukherjee, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Lives of Others

“A triumph . . . Wonderfully unpredictable, arresting, haunting.”—Jamel Brinkley, author of A Lucky Man

“In Serpell’s hands, longing becomes a story of uncanny repetition, and the logic of dreams feels intensely, compellingly real.”—Isabella Hammad, author of The Parisian

“A gorgeous, surreal meditation on identity and mourning, one that squeezes the heartstrings and rarely relaxes its grip.”—New York Magazine

“Enthralling . . . Serpell disrupts our expectations, over and over . . . [and] blurs the line between our dreams and our waking lives.”—Oprah Daily

“I’ll jump to read anything Serpell writes, and all the more so with a novel about grief and memory and longing.”—Electric Lit

“One of the world’s most exciting contemporary novelists . . . I’m eagerly anticipating this new work from her.”—Literary Hub

“Stylistically refreshing and emotionally intense, cementing Serpell’s place among the best writers going.”—Kirkus Reviews, (starred review)
 
“Breathtaking. . .  a searching, unforgettable story. It’s a considerable shift from the huge canvas of her previous work, and no less captivating.” —Publishers Weekly, (starred review)