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Praise for The Old Drift
"Extraordinary, ambitious, evocative... The Old Drift is an impressive book, ranging skillfully between historical and science fiction, shifting gears between political argument, psychological realism and rich fabulism... a dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage." --SALMAN RUSHDIE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (cover)
"This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade. It made the skin on the back of my neck prickle."--DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Namwali Serpell's vibrant, intellectually rich debut novel, The Old Drift... refuses to conform to expectations. . . . This oddball cast of characters simply represents the joys of the picaresque novel, in which the author's set design is intentionally surreal and ironic. . . . Serpell is a natural social novelist, capable of conjuring a Dickensian range of characters with a painterly eye for detail. . . . [A] clear-eyed, energetic and richly entertaining novel."--THE WASHINGTON POST
"There are moments of such heart-wrenching poignancy that I had to put the book down several times and recompose myself. Serpell writes with the emotional maturity and sardonic smile of one who has lived several times already. It is the reader's great privilege to follow her strange and vivid characters from cradle to grave."--THE SUNDAY TIMES
