Namwali Serpell’s THE FURROWS was featured in the LA Times piece “How 2022 became the year of the fragmented-identity novel.” Mark Athitakis writes: “The tail end of 2022 has been marked by a worrying sense that the center really isn’t holding…[M]uch of the prominent fiction of 2022 met the moment and captured this fragmentation, thick with code-switching, style-shifting and cacophonies of anxious narration. The omniscient, singular authorial voice in literary fiction has become ever more antiquated — still valuable, but more like an exotic, bespoke retreat than literature’s mainland…This approach manifested itself poignantly in Namwali Serpell’s second novel, THE FURROWS. A woman mourning her brother’s sudden death switches tones and perspectives to either grasp or escape her complicity in the incident. Her status as a character morphs, as if to suggest that inhabiting someone else’s identity might bring us closer to our own...Serpell is doing much the same for the trauma plot: A recurring phrase in THE FURROWS is, ‘I don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.’ Serpell is saying that as much as the protagonist is. She’s seeking a form that escapes conventional storytelling about The Incident That Changed Everything while still building a story around exactly that.” THE FURROWS was also selected as a "Best Book for Every Type of Mom" by New York Magazine’s The Strategist, specifically “[f]or the mom who doesn’t do genre fiction.” Hogarth published THE FURROWS on September 27, 2022.