Praise for Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s novel GRANT PARK :

Grant Park is layered, insightful, and passionate . Pitts's subtly explosive language grips readers with the delicate subject matter and earnestly implores them to understand that '[race] has always meant something and it always will.' The scars will remain, but stunningly powerful examinations like Grant Park can be the salve that helps heal open wounds. — Shelf-Awareness , starred review

Leonard Pitts has written a taut thriller that weaves together a stark look at America's tortured racial past with a fast-paced tale of terrorist conspiracy and love rekindled . —Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun Times

“. . . these ideas [are] perennially salient, and doubly so today, given a growing litany of American sorrows, from Ferguson to Charleston and beyond. . . . lays bare the extent to which Americans, black and white, still struggle to articulate the basic elements of our shared past. — Vinson Cunningham, New York Times Book Review

The book is a page-turner, but also one that commands deep reflection on history, racism, and personal choices. —Blanca Torres, The Seattle Times

A novel as significant as it is engrossing. — Booklist , starred review

Pitts masterfully revisits [election night on November 4, 2008] and four decades of the civil rights struggle to create one of the most suspenseful and spectacular fictitious moments you'll experience this fall. —Patrik Henry Bass, Essence

Pitts does a skillful job of building tension in the novel's historical sections as well as on Election Day. . . . He also does something not every political thriller writer does: builds believable, complex characters. — Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times

[A] high-stakes, hard-charging political thriller. . . . The sharply etched characters, careful attention to detail, and rich newspaper lore propel Pitts's socially relevant novel. — Publishers Weekly

And then there are those thrills—gasping, mouth-gaping page-turners that author Leonard Pitts Jr. weaves through another realism: truthful, brutal plot-lines about racial issues of the last five decades, mulling over exactly how far we've really come. That makes this will-they-live-or-won't-they nail-biter into something that also made me think, and I absolutely loved it. — Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez

An important book, one that honestly examines the current, tumultuous racial divide in our country and demands we not turn away from its harsh realities. —Amy Canfield, Miami Herald

Grant Park is a book that's both socially relevant and a lot of fun. — NewCity

In the aftermath of this summer's racially motivated mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina, by an avowed white supremacist, there's near-eerie prescience in Pitts' historical novel. . .[ Grant Park ], with urgency and passion, makes readers aware that the mistakes of the past are neglected at the future's peril. — Kirkus Reviews

Grant Park is a monumental work, so all-encompassing in scope that reviewers will be hard-pressed to do it justice. Pitts's passion for a solution holds strong to the end of his novel even as his central character seems to give up. Readers will find Grant Park is real. — Bookpleasures.com

Grant Park is a thriller, and readers will find themselves turning pages accordingly, although the interior stories of Bob and Malcolm regarding their younger selves may be the real action. —Brian Burnes, The Kansas City Star

Praise for Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s previous novel FREEMAN :

A uniquely American epic. . . by a knowledgeable, compassionate and relentlessly truthful writer. — Howard Frank Mosher, Washington Post

A pretty powerful love story. — Audie Cornish, All Things Considered

Gorgeously written; a searing, wrenching read. Fans of Cold Mountain and Cormac McCarthy will love this story.