Inheritance

“Lazarre is unflinching in her depiction of the destructive historical assumptions and taboos on all sides of the color and racial divide. . . .and in [her] luminous prose, Inheritance becomes an unsettling and necessary meditation on the messiness of America’s shared racial heritage in all its quarrelsome parts.”
Wesley Brown

Some Place Quite Unknown

"Some Place Quite Unknown is as intimate and urgent as a confessional poem. Lazarre's enraptured and lyrical prose probes, with admirable rigor and dazzling artistry, the deepest places of a woman's heart. This is a powerful and original work."
Jaime Manrique

Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness

"An important affirmation of a white woman's love of her black sons. Jane Lazarre, warrior mom, has crossed over."
Alice Walker

The Mother Knot

"A wholly original and important book...I cannot imagine a woman who would not be moved, or a man who would not be enlightened."
Adrienne Rich

The Powers of Charlotte

"A beautifully written tour de force of a novel in the spirit of Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood."
American Book Review

Wet Earth and Dreams

"She has it right! Perhaps even workers in the field will learn something about how patients feel. Thank you Jane Lazarre from all of us..."
Lucille Clifton

Worlds Beyond My Control

"Jane Lazarre's new book is a special sort of literary adventure. It has the rich, dense texture of life itself."
Lynne Sharon Schwartz