A controversial but appealing, amusing, and vivacious celebration of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’sNo other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Al
“A god, a companion to sorceresses at the Witches’ Sabbath, a beast who is royal in Siam, who in Japan is called ‘the tiger that eats from the hand,’ the adored of Mohammed, Laura’s rival with Petrarch, the friend of Richelieu, the favorite of p