Praise for Touched and Walter Mosley: "An expansive dystopian fantasy that is equally sexy and incisive." - Entertainment Weekly "Like a Black Mirror episode set against the Hollywood Hills." - Kirkus "Walter Mosley is best known as one of contemporary literature's pre-eminent crime novelists, but he's actually four or five different writers rolled into one. He's an altogether thornier, more idiosyncratic writer than readers may know, an inveterate investigator and chronicler of his own heart, mind and soul." -- New York Times The prolific Mosley delights in the wonderfully bizarre. He unfurls into greater and frankly breathtaking complexity."-- New York Times on The Awkward Black Man "[Near] the recent work of Julian Barnes and Roddy Doyle."-- Wall Street Journal on The Awkward Black Man "We see [Mosley] as a chronicler of Black life in America.

"-- Washington Post on The Awkward Black Man "Tinged with sardonic humor and acerbic observations, many echoing the pained, bristling voices of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin."-- New Yorker on The Awkward Black Man.