About the Author

Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ph.D., is the author of the novels Voodoo Dreams and Magic City, and is the recipient of a Yaddo Creative Writing Fellowship as well as the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction. She is the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing and a professor of American literature at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Reviews

Praise for Jewell Parker Rhodes's Magic City:

"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will, magically, turn out for the best." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Jewell Parker Rhodes's characters hover. They dance and sing and cry and whisper secrets in your ear." --Emerge