The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford
[A] compelling, witty, and absorbing tale ... Readers will be captivated by these women and the town that binds them.
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The title is both playful and accurate: Richard Milford, called Rich, proves almost as difficult to kill as Rasputin, with whom he shares many unsavory characteristics. As for the wives, only one possesses a marriage certificate ... The novel opens with Rich’s funeral. The truth of who or what killed him is revealed with tantalizing slyness as Ms. Thompson-Spires shifts perspectives, lacing each monologue with mordant humor.
Thompson-Spires’s beguiling story, full of competing versions of the truth, is enriched by commentary on capitalistic excess and male chauvinism, and by its exploration of the limits of individualistic social theories put forth by such Black leaders as Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington. Readers will be floored.
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