"Sensuous, swift, full of sparkling twists, (Daugharty's) is a voice so rich that a single page can be thrilling." New York Times Book Review
"Janice Daugharty is a born story-teller. Her voice is a finely honed 'Southern' voice that is warm, vibrant, and original; her characters seem to leap from the page, fully imagined in a sentence or two. Best of all, her fiction is rich with surprises. Each story is like a wild, improvised ride that takes us to an unexpected destination." Joyce Carol Oates
Praise for Dark of the Moon
"Filled with tension and drama... DARK OF THE MOON is a promising debut." Publishers Weekly
“These two books (DARK OF THE MOON and GOING THROUGH THE CHANGE) work a miracle. By resurrecting Southern sprits that looked gone for good, they restore the redemptive and violent country of Flannery O'Conner..." The New York Times
--"There are divine details in DARK OF THE MOON. You needn't caress them for they caress you, like things agreeably alien in grits." Padgett Powell
"The newest inheritor of a literary tradition that includes Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews, Janice Daugharty is the genuine article." City Paper, Baltimore
"An odd and engaging love story. Recommended for public libraries.” Library Journal
Necessary lies
Janice Daugharty is a natural-born writer, one of those Georgia women like O'Connor, McCullers, or Siddons who are best grown in small towns, a long way from city lights. There is a lot of red clay and long nights in every line she puts on paper." Pat Conroy
“There are scenes of remarkable power in it, and a clear and fine novelistic vision.” Anne Rivers Siddons
"(Janice Daugharty is) The hottest new writer in the venerable tradition of Southern fiction." Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"Daugharty creates a forceful character and a compelling, often even humorous narrative." Washington Post Book World
Whistle
"Daugharty does a fine job of demonstrating how ordinary men and women are affected, in unpredictable ways, by race, poverty and geography and by the enduring legacy of important historical moments." Francine Prose, People Magazine
WHISTLE is an ambitious and vivid tale, by an increasingly impressive novelist." Kirkus Reviews
"WHISTLE is a wonderful piece of storytelling...It is also a shrewd social commentary." Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe
"In much the same way that Shirley Ann Grau's 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE defined the rural South of its time, WHISTLE captures it three decades later. Here is a work against which fiction about today's South should be measured for a long time." Publishers Weekly
"Whistle " is a triumph...Daugharty has produced a taut and redolent story of victory...a glad experience." Fred Chappell/Raleigh News and Observer
“(WHISTLE) is the kind of novel that makes you want to collar other fiction lovers on the street and insist that they read it…Daugharty writes taut and vivid prose that brands white-hot images on your gray matter and makes you sit up straight with admiration." Lisa Alther, Washington Post Book World
"Janice Daugharty has what every writer wants...Critical success and broad appeal." Hartford Advocate
Like a Sister
"Daugharty's ear is excellent, her language concise and precise...shrewd and colorful prose." The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
"LIKE A SISTER is vintage Daugharty with characters so earthy that they seem to spring from the dusty Southern soil, full of life and endurance. Daugharty is a storyteller of startling powers... A dynamic teller of tales." Chattanooga Free Press
"...fans will rejoice to see Daugharty do what she does best: showcase one character, setting her off against a thousand daily details, like a diamond nestled in the shards of lesser gems." USA Today
"Getting into a Janice Daugharty novel can be like moving into the rural Georgia she writes about... By the time you have to go, you wish you could stay a spell longer." Orlando Sentinel
"The language is supple and genuine even in winding around diaper rash and mosquito bites." Booklist
Earl in the Yellow Shirt
--"Daugharty's brilliant fourth novel, which recalls Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING, shows that there is good and evil in every family." Library Journal
"A very human story with a very human ending...Seldom has living been presented with such stark clarity." Atlanta-Journal & Constitution
"(Daugharty) has created a world of harsh beauty and given us the poetry of common speech." The Detroit Free Press
"(Daugharty's) characters convince." Entertainment Weekly.
"Janice Daugharty is a storyteller of startling powers. Her most recent novel, EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT, illustrates lucidly her unique gift for creating hardscrabble narrative that jumps up from the page and assails her readers...A dynamic teller of tales." Chattanooga Free Press
"An audacious novel, hilarious and moving by turns...(EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT is) wonderfully funny and moving." Kirkus Reviews
Pawpaw Patch
"Swirling with details that become more disturbing the closer you look, Ms. Daugharty's portrait of Cornerville is both intimate and unsettling." The New York Times Book Review
Daugharty's growing reputation is bound to be enhanced by this book, which goes beyond regional fiction to take on universal issues. An exceptional read; highly recommended." Library Journal
A pawpaw may be described as mature, pulpy, fleshy, luscious, steeped, savory, and done to a turn. PAWPAW PATCH is all of the above and more...Daugharty invests her Southern setting with a richly textured, visceral reality." Publishers Weekly--starred review
"Tremendously entertaining, a sure sign that Daugharty has emerged as yet another gifted chronicler of the Southern small town and all the weirdness that lies therein." Memphis Commercial Appeal
"Getting into a Janice Daugharty novel can be like moving into the rural Georgia she writes about. Everybody knows everybody else, and you're the outsider. But people are amenable--if not always likable--as they tell you about their lives. By the time you have to go, you wish you could stay a spell longer." Orlando Sentinel
"The enduring prejudices, resentment, and regrets boiling away just beneath the surface of small-town life are given a thorough (and salutary) airing in Southern writer Daugharty's provocative new work." Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Going Through the Change
“A fascinating collection of fourteen energetic and colorful stories that mirrors the changes Daugharty herself must be experiencing as a relatively new writer, the changes that are vital to any artist's growth. Her rich, vibrant style will, with time and practice, elevate her work from promising to memorable, and she will take her place as yet another of the South's distinctive writers." Winston-Salem Journal
"Dramatic, even perverse buildups and often striking prose make these stories compelling." Publishers Weekly
"Janice Daugharty is a born story-teller. Her voice is a finely honed 'Southern' voice that is warm, vibrant, and original; her characters seem to leap from the page, fully imagined in a sentence or two. Best of all, her fiction is rich with surprises. Each story is like a wild, improvised ride that takes us to an unexpected destination." Joyce Carol Oates
Miscellaneous
"Janice Daugharty has a voice that is as distinctive in its own way as that of an Ann Beattie or a Jamaica Kincaid." The Dallas Morning News
"(Janice Daugharty is) the hottest new writer in the venerable tradition of Southern fiction." Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"Tremendously entertaining, a sure sign that Daugharty has emerged as yet another gifted chronicler of the Southern small town and all the weirdness that lies therein." Memphis Commercial Appeal