PRAISE FOR BRET LOTT
"A beautifully crafted first-person epic of one poor Southern woman's personal duel with God . . . This is a voice we don't want to stop hearing. . . . Some of the tenderest scenes of family love since those in Dickens."
--"Chicago Tribune
"Lott is one of the most important and imaginative writers in America today. His eye for detail is unparalleled; his vision--where he looks--is like no one else's in this country."
--"Los Angeles Times
"Bret Lott has a gift for making the ordinary seem luminous. In Jewel, he applies his art to a broad canvas and produces what may stand as his masterpiece. . . . Lott matches the honest strength of his characters with that of his prose. His Jewel is a force of nature, her story rising out of a perfect, seamless union of teller and tale."
--"The Boston Globe