REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

Essence Magazine - Patricks Picks for 2006 - A Dazzling Debut: 2006-05-02
The mother figure in life will be absorbed with Unburnable (Amistad $23.95), Marie-Elena John's electrifying debut novel about the revelation of a post-World War II family scandal that nearly causes a young Caribbean woman to unravel. Remember you read it here first: Unburnable marks the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. Yes, it's all that. -Patrick Bass, Essence Book Editor