Song For Night

Like the protagonists {of} Flaubert's Simple Heart  and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, My Luck is both archetypal and utterly himself. Song for Night contains, at once, an extraordinary ferocity and a vulnerable beauty all its own.
   — New York Times

Song for Night is a devastating portrait of a boy holding onto the shreds of his innocence during a war that deliberately, remorselessly works to yank it away.
   — Los Angeles Times

If you want to get at the molten heart of contemporary fiction, Abani is the starting point.
- Dave Eggers

Abani ...brings to mind Babel, Hemingway, McCarthy.
- Esquire

Chris Abani is a writer of mesmerizing powers, embracing warmth, and transcendent compassion.
   — Donna Seaman in BookLust

The genius of Abani's work derives from his intellectual engagement with our world and his unflinching depictions, in the most mesmerizing language imaginable, of its most insidious horrors and its richest beauties. Song for Night demonstrates, yet again, why Abani ranks among our most incendiary and emotionally devastating and important writers.

- Miami Herald