Alta Journal published a rave review of Namwali Serpell’s lauded second novel, THE FURROWS. Anita Felicelli praises the book as an “intense, palimpsestic antinovel” with an “ingenious, off-kilter necromancy,” adding: “THE FURROWS relies on three voices to bring us into an exquisitely rendered nether space where visual likeness, name, and metaphor appear concrete, only to fall away in subsequent scenes...The more we read, the more we are strung along by competing sequences bound by Serpell’s sleek and unexpected syntax, her unnerving emotional observation and repeated images…The ambiguities of THE FURROWS superfuse techniques from Alfred Hitchcock films, especially VERTIGO, while also suggesting the French author Marie NDiaye’s LADIVINE. Yet Serpell opts for stunning emotional deepenings at every turn. Again and again, the novel exploits the literary potential of the Freudian uncanny to construct haunting multiplications rather than the transparent resolutions of traditional novelists.” Hogarth published the novel on September 27, 2022.