Praise for Bed Stuy An Amazon Best Book of the Month: Literature & Fiction McGill's prose can acquire a quick, musical rhythm before settling into more expansive sections that deftly take on questions of race and class. In many ways, the novel is a wonder to behold. -Kirkus Reviews Smart and touching...McGill succeeds in depicting love as a universal force, for better or for worse. -Publishers Weekly Love defies all odds in Jerry McGill's lyrical and heartbreaking novel Bed Stuy. -POPSUGAR In Bed Stuy, Jerry McGill crafts a love story that is as gritty as a New York sidewalk and as tender as a first embrace. Two people from different worlds grapple with the challenge of how to bridge their divides-made chasms by race, age, and privilege-to connect, to understand, and to forgive. McGill's knowing gaze is unflinching but compassionate, conveying in all its complexity the terror of love, the fear and doubt that plague it, and the bone-deep need for more. -W. S. Winslow, author of The Northern Reach Praise for Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me An unforgettable and intriguing journey...Violence, hope, despair, forgiveness, anger, and living with a disability are explored both lightly and deeply, humorously and profoundly, and always honestly. -Library Journal (starred review) An inspirational memoir by a writer who refuses to be defined by his paralysis as he comes to terms with the unknown man who shot him. -Kirkus Reviews I couldn't put it down. This is a compelling marriage of remembrance and forgiveness, absolution and compassion, cynicism and understanding. -Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling. -Shalom Auslander, author of Hope: A Tragedy
