Critics praised the novel for its terse prose and controlled tone, and admired its focus on precisely realised characters and situations. L. E. Sissman
in the New Yorker commented that FW
presents the gross texture...
Literary responses
Toni Morrison
Julius Lester
wrote a review of this novel, which he judged to be wonderful and beautiful, for Life. The magazine did not print his review because it thought the book not important enough...
