Though Miss Anne in Harlem won't officially hit bookstores until September 10th, Hilton Als made sure to bring an advance copy with him over the summer. Writing about it on his New Yorker blog, "Miss Anne in Harlem is Carla Kaplan's big narrative about six white women who found a sometimes uneasy but emotionally satisfying home in Harlem during the fabled nineteen-twenties Renaissance, when poets and writers and dancers and thinkers were creating a new world in a kind of utopia of miscegenation and creativity. As Zora Neale Hurston's most impassioned biographer, Kaplan always writes from inside her characters, and with a novelist's sense of scope—and compassion."