Some Deaths in the Delta

Street Games

The Autobiography of My Mother

Cora Fry

Tender Mercies

Before and After

"Powerful...This novel, for all its philosophical provocation and literary merit, is also an unabashed, read-until-dawn page-turner."

New York Times Book Review

"A painful and exhilarating novel."

Alice Munro

"Chilling...Brown writes beautifully and believably, capturing anger, doubt and bewilderment."

People Magazine

"A remarkable, nightmarish, often shattering novel."

Kirkus Reviews

Civil Wars

"Brown tells a densely rich story, filled with insight, of a family in crisis. Savor it!"

Library Journal

"At a time when fiction by women seems perversely misunderstood, one can only hope that Civil Wars will be recognized as a brave and fine work...richly rendered...it belongs to our recent history."

New York Times Book Review

"Brown demonstrates remarkable insights into human relationships and scrutinizes ethical principles in crisis situations’ĶReaders will remain immersed in her gripping story, mesmerized by the questions she raises and by the brave, intelligent, compassionate manner in which she deals with them."

Publishers' Weekly

Tender Mercies

A haunting novel...prose as masterful, and as moving, as any being written today."

Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review

"A magnificent achievement...written with amazing authority, compelling beauty and immediacy."

Tillie Olsen

The Autobiography of My Mother

"A bitter, funny, stringently unsentimental novel of rare merit."

New York Times Book Review

"Virtuoso in its delicate skill."

Margaret Atwood

"As fluent and gripping as a dream."

Boston Globe

Street Games

"An American classic."

John Freeman, Chicago Tribune

"In these stories, Rosellen Brown is Anglo, Puerto Rican, African-American, Caucasian, male, female, parent, child...It's a brilliantly written book that, in a period of fiction sniffing and snorting at itself, reminds us how the first-rate will not go away."

Frederick Busch

Cora Fry's Pillow Book

Rosellen Brown has created a touchingly melancholy narrative...a cause to celebrate."

New York Times Book Review

"If you are looking for poetry which is refreshing and genuine as an undiluted draught of water from a healing spring, read Cora Fry's Pillow Book. Cora's potent, true-blue, energetic voice will do no less than revive you. I count it among the absolute necessaries."

Naomi Shihab Nye

A Rosellen Brown Reader

"This enjoyable collection of essays, short stories and poetry underscores the breadth of Brown's talents, shedding light on the Brown oeuvre and the literary daredevil behind it."

Newsday

"I urge readers not to miss the Rosellen Brown Reader...In her poetry and essays and through her fictional characters, she portrays with great immediacy the struggle to understand oneself and the surrounding world."

Tess Lewis, New Directions for Women

Civil Wars

Before and After

Rosellen Brown Reader

Cora Fry's Pillow Book

Half a Heart