“A tour de force; a toast to a mystical, gritty place; a tableau of Black arts and culture centering on Detroit City. . . . Alice Randall has resurrected a lost glitter world. Here, Detroit’s original and best Black neighborhood, along with its brilliant, yearning, brave, maddening, and ultimately mortal residents, bursts to colorful life in a flash of incomparable style. Black Bottom Saints is a ritual calling forth of the blazing spirits of bygone breadwinners, reminding not only Detroiters, but all Black Americans, that ?Once upon a time, we did it.?”—Tiya Miles, author of The Dawn of Detroit and Professor of History, Harvard University “One of the bravest and most insightful writers of her generation.”–Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage