Naomi Jackson[1] is an American author most known for her novel The Star Side of Bird Hill, which was nominated for the NAACP Image Award.
[3][4] Naomi Jackson's debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, was met immediately with high praise.
Highly recommended by Gawker and The Huffington Post, NPR's book review "A Lyrical Coming Of Age Tale In 'Bird Hill'"[5] was more critical.
In this piece critic Michael Schaub call "[Star Side of Bird Hill] excellent for a debut novel, though it's not entirely without its flaws."
Isabella Biedenharn with Entertainment Weekly gave it a more positive review,[6] calling it, "so poetic in its descriptions and so alive with lovable, frustrating, painfully real characters, that your emotional response to it becomes almost physical."