Bury those easy-to-read Black romance books. Mosquito is where African-American literature is heading as we approach the twenty-first century. -E. Ethelbert Miller, Emerge If you're acquainted with the lyrical tug of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, then you'll find something familiar and compelling about the narrative voice in Gayl Jones's newest novel, Mosquito. . . . Mosquito's voice is melodic, direct, and so conversational that it hooks us immediately and makes us surrender fully to the narrative. . . . To be sure, these observations crackle with wit and a joyful, almost child-like candor. -Quinn Eli, Philadelphia Inquirer Gayl Jones is the black writer we all want to be when we grow up . . . Mosquito is Gayl Jones unbound, but certainly not untethered nor without her still prodigious storehouses of language, craft, and storytelling prowess. -Greg Tate, Voice Literary Supplement Mosquito will amuse and confuse and instruct and pique and exhaust you. Sometimes the anecdotes are so