Characters in No Marble Angels struggle to close distances between each other, distances of race, sex, age.
“A valuable philosophical or political acquisition as well as a literary one … should be sought out and read.”—Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times
“The stories remind me of both I.B. Singer and Flannery O’Conner—compelling.”—John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am
“Readers casually picking up … No Marble Angels might think they have stumbled into Anne Tyler’s world … gems of clean, direct narrative.”—Baltimore Sun
“With wonderfully wry humor, Leedom-Ackerman depicts the kind of good will that ends up causing trouble for others … a refined sense of craft is evident in all the stories.”—Library Journal