--Glorious was a finalist for the 2011 NAACP Image Award for Fiction. "McFadden's lively and loving rendering of New York hews closely to the jazz-inflected city of myth. . . . McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accommodates humor and pathos." --New York Times Book Review
"Bernice L. McFadden's novel Glorious, which starts with a bang-up prologue, has a strong main character (based in part...