"Read this book! An incredible journey! A beautiful love story!" --Madonna "Memoirist Walker makes her fiction debut with a short, sad tale of love that flowers but cannot take root in Kenya. The prose is gorgeous." -- Kirkus Reviews "Vivid.[ Adé ] will not soon be forgotten." --New York Journal of Books " [ Adé ] reads like a memoir, and its prose is as concentrated and image-filled as a parable. Readers will relish the dreamlike story of love and surrender." -- Library Journal "A fiction debut that is as much a novel of self-discovery and identity as a lucent love story." -- Booklist "Walker's prose aches with longing, and a knowingness.
[ Adé ] feels as though it's told in the weighty quiet of a late night conversation." --STET "[ Adé ] is deceptively simple--a youthful experience of love. Using humor, terrifying suspense, familial dynamics, and thoughtful reminisces, Walker shows how to open and accept, reveal and trust, encourage and hope." -- USA Today 's Happy Ever After "I want to say Adé reads like a memoir, but this heartbreaking, poetic tale of romance versus reality does more than that: it reads like truth. Lush, sensual, seductive, Adé is written with as much love as the story it tells." --Mat Johnson, author of Pym "In luminous, dreamlike prose, Rebecca Walker has written more than a love story: Adé explores the difficulty of fleeing one's origins, of relinquishing privilege, even in the name of love." --Danzy Senna, author of You Are Free and Caucasia "Brief and intense, Adé is a surprise gem--a sensuous feast of food, sex, danger, and the life of awakened senses from one of our most celebrated nonfiction writers. A lyrical novel as timeless as Marguerite Duras's The Lover .
" --Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 "If you've ever dared to love outside the predictable geography of your origins, or wished you had, this beautiful novel will grab your heart and not let go." --Bliss Broyard, author of One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets.