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Praise for MASANDE NTSHANGA’S The Reactive

“[The Reactive is] a searing, gorgeously written account of life, love, illness, and death in South Africa. With exquisite prose, formal innovation, and a masterful command of storytelling, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government’s fatal policies on HIV & AIDS.”

—Naomi Jackson, Poets & Writers

“Woozy, touching… a novel that delivers an unexpected love letter to Cape Town, painting it as a place of frustrated glory.”

—Marian Ryan, Slate

“With The Reactive, [Ntshanga] has created an immersive and powerful portrait of drug use, community, and health issues by exploring what it was like to be young, black, South African, and HIV positive in the early aughts.”

—VICE

“[The Reactive] is an affecting, slow-burning novel that gives a fantastic sense of a particular place and time, and of the haunted inner life of its protagonist.”

—Tobias Carroll, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“The Reactive is not only a beautiful novel, as fierce and formally innovative as it is lyrical and moving, but also a call to inhabit as well as to critique the symbolic structures of our world that can both empower and betray us.”

—Nathan Goldman, Full Stop

“Ntshanga deftly illustrates the growing pains of a new country through three friends who seem intent on obliterating their minds, but who nevertheless cling to their dreams.”

—Dmitry Samarov, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

“Gritty and revealing, Ntshanga’s debut novel offers a brazen portrait of present-day South Africa. This is an eye-opening, ambitious novel.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Ntshanga offers a devastating story yet tells it with noteworthy glow and flow that keeps pages turning until the glimmer-of-hope ending.”

—Library Journal

“Electrifying… [Ntshanga] succeeds at exploring major themes—illness, family, and, most effectively, class—while keeping readers in suspense. Ntshanga’s promising debut is both moving and satisfyingly complex.”

—Kirkus Reviews