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Awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Obama, James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, the #1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water, and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna. He is also the author of Kill 'Em and Leave, a biography of James Brown. McBride is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
Praise for Five-Carat Soul: These brilliant miniatures display all of the rambunctious fearlessness of [McBride's] deeply empathetic imagination... Five-Carat Soul [is] a delight. -The New York Times Book Review Brash, daring and defiantly original... [these] stories are bound to stay with readers for a very long time. -NPR A furious joy drives these glimpses of brave lives in perilous places. -San Francisco Chronicle Serious fun. -Newsday McBride is such an agile writer that each voice feels authentic and somehow familiar. ...These are stories of and from the soul. -Minneapolis Star-Tribune Unpredictable, exhilarating, and, often, hilarious. ... a wild and utterly delightful ride. -BuzzFeed Poignant, imaginative, and 'literary' in the best sense of the word. -Christian Science Monitor Funny, strange and touching. ... McBride proves once again that he is a master conjurer of African Americana. -Seattle Times McBride delivers pure gold... Five-Carat Soul shakes with laughter, grips with passion and oozes wisdom. -Shelf Awareness (starred review)
