Harlem Is Nowhere

"An elegant writer...Rhodes-Pitts unearths gems from Harlem's rich history."—Joseph P. Williams JR., The Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Harlem Is Nowhere is...a pilgrimage, a celebration and a cautionary note. It also heralds the arrival of a writer whose voice fits right in with the literary forebears she reveres."—Jane Ciabattari, NPR.com

"This book's alive...it's intoxicating."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Rhodes-Pitts is one of that rare breed of writer who, on the strength of her hypnotic voice and idiosyncratic thinking, can turn every sentence into a crooked finger, impossible to resist."—Laura Miller, Salon

"Rhodes-Pitts honors the dreamers imagining what Harlem could be, while never losing sight of how each of them was thwarted by the disconnect between the heaven they envisioned and the reality they lived."—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Dazzling riffs on the cultural citadel of Black America."—Boyd Tonkin, "Best Books of the Year," Independent

"Rhodes-Pitts reveals, even to those who may have never ventured into Harlem, why it is a place of dreams and why it endures."—--W. Ralph Eubanks, National Public Radio

"A fine debut...Like a young Joan Didion, Rhodes-Pitts stands in the corner with her notebook out...And, as with Didion, the thread keeping these disparate scraps together is her singular voice."—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The American Scholar

"Enchanting...Rhodes-Pitts's Harlem is a place worth fighting for."—Kaiama Glover, New York Times Book Review