“Davis (Shifting Through Neutral, 2005) explores the ambivalent, often troubling experiences of African-Americans in Africa through the lens of a young woman who, having grown up during the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s, struggles to find her place in the world during the less idealistic ’80s…..The difficult intellectual questions Davis raises about personal identity and an African-American’s relation to contemporary Africa are particularly resonant given Nigeria’s current woes.”

—Kirkus Reviews  July 31, 2014

“At its core, Into the Go-Slow is a love story — romantic love, love of family, love of culture, love of self. Angie is an unforgettable heroine who will steal your heart and break it, too. Bridgett M. Davis is a brilliant writer.”

–Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and Silver Sparrow

“Bridgett M. Davis has created a beautiful allegory at the heart of a realist novel –an allegory of love, family, expansion, hope, and transformation — all of it worked out compassionately and with integrity in the only country that offers both allegory and realism–Nigeria. A strong book.” 

—Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas

“Davis’s novel asks the big questions reverberating through the African American community in the wake of the 1980s: Who are we now? What is Africa to us? Homeland or fantasy? Into the Go-Slow is a page turner; its daring protagonist is a young woman on the cusp of adulthood, searching for the legacy of the sister she has lost to an era of change.” 

—Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

“In Davis’ work, Africa is not this abstract idea. Her Lagos, her Kano bristles with abundant life, around which she weaves a lovely story about those small but lasting redemptions that only a sister’s love can bring.”

–Ainehi Edoro, Brittle Paper

“Because of (its) careful, artful humanity and stunning, sensual depiction of Nigeria and Detroit in the 1980s, the book is a page-turner. For all of its politics, Into the Go-Slow is also about grief, healing, and refusing nostalgia, in the way that good novels are always about more than one thing.”

—Danielle Jackson, New Black Man (In Exile)