An exciting new novel from a major voice in American literature - exploring artists in exile, dangerous relationships and the demands of creativity.

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Praise for Palmares

'Gayl Jones is a literary legend . . . A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your understanding of the world' Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Guardian

'A story woven with extraordinary complexity, depth and skill . . . After suffering the author's absence for far too long, we can rejoice at her return' Robert Jones, Jr, New York Times

'Page after breathtaking page, her prose is intricate, mesmerising, and endlessly inventive and subversive. Palmares is absolutely stunning!' Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

'A masterfully absorbing, mythic work from a vital voice. The gods have conspired to gift us a new book from Gayl Jones and my what a gloriously eddying read' Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch

'Astonishingly rich in character and incident, filled with magic and mystery' The Sunday Times

Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable; from a historical standpoint, she stands at the very cutting edge of understanding the modern world, and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humour, and incisiveness, is unmatched. Jones is a writer's writer, and her influence is found everywhere