"In its exploration of female competition and resourcefulness, Dominion may remind readers of Zora Neale Hurston."

"Bruising, funny, and deeply intelligent."

"Citchens announces herself here as a bold and darkly funny new talent, one unafraid to look directly at the messier truths of power, faith and family."

"Gripping. Dominion has the page-turning quality of a crime novel. The narrative layering... is a masterstroke, because Citchens writes community so well: every character, however briefly we see them, is intriguing in their own right, like portraits in a gallery you could spend an entire day browsing."

"An incandescent debut that exalts the beauty and strength of black womanhood whilst also illuminating the sins of the patriarchy and the bargains that women strike to survive them. It's irreverent and anti-institutional, brilliant and bold and very brave."

" Dominion emerges as an assured debut. It restores faith in the power of language — and in the act of owning one's story — suggesting that we are not defined solely by what has happened to us, but by what we choose to carry forward."

"A wise, sophisticated, and impressively crafted novel of secrets, longing, and strength."

"Mississippi is a mystifying language. In Dominion, Addie E. Citchens speaks it with a dazzling tongue. The book is at once ancestral and newborn, drunk with sugary grits beauty and sobering with a Black woman's truth. Citchens shows us that, in a world roamed by two-legged beasts whose robes are stitched with the blood and ruin of willful women, getting happy and getting free are vast contradictions."

"This is the rarest and finest kind of storytelling, where both the tradition and innovation get plucked by the most audacious artistry I've experienced in a long, long time. You read this and see there's literally nothing narratively Addie E. Citchens can't do with her skill, her will. We have never in our reading lives experienced such an imagination, a gumption, a breathing Mississippi, and a craftsperson this locked in at this stage of her career. My god, we are lucky."