• Roxane Gay selects Tumbling for Wall Street Journal’s Book Club with this link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/roxane-gay-picks-tumbling-for-wsj-book-club-1491315254.
• Watch Lazaretto featured on NY1 News – http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/book-reader/2016/04/29/the-book-reader—lazaretto-.html
• New Books in Historical Fiction interview – http://newbooksnetwork.com/diane-mckinney-whetstone-lazaretto-harper-2016/
• The AFRO News, The Historical Novel Society, Manhattan Book Review, and Buzzfeed all featured and reviewed Lazaretto
• Booklist gives Lazaretto a starred review calling it, “Vibrant… Completely engaging… A unique blend of poetic language and graphic depictions of the injustices suffered by African Americans in the post-Civil War period.”
• Lazaretto featured in a recent Huffington Post Piece – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-book-releases-2016_5684607ae4b0b958f65b3a65
• Kirkus Reviews praises Lazaretto–“Language sings throughout the whole of McKinney-Whetstone’s writing—from the lilt of her characters’ colloquial speech to her poetic, visceral descriptions…. A sophisticated and compelling novel that comes alive through a rich cavalcade of vibrant characters and a suspenseful plot.”
• Lazaretto featured in April Essence.  Editor Patrik Henry Bass likens the novel to the “elegantly written, intricately plotted”  Tumbling,” and says that in Lazaretto “there is love in all of its many facets and dimensions. The author shows that good writing is like a fine bottle of wine–it just gets better with time.”
• Buzzfeed praises Lazaretto, saying, “When it comes to creating living and breathing characters, no one can touch Diane McKinney-Whetstone. Her new novel Lazaretto is no exception. On the evening of President Lincoln’s assassination, Meda, a young black housemaid, gives birth to a child fathered by the master of the house but is wrongly led to believe that the baby died, setting in motion a complex web of lies and longings. Heartbroken, Meda becomes a surrogate mother to two white boys from the nearby orphanage, whose disparate paths eventually bring both to the Lazaretto, a (real) Pennsylvania quarantine hospital. When the Lazaretto is put on lockdown, its trapped inhabitants are forced to untangle the fragile threads that have led them all there. I suggest reading Lazaretto at the dinner table, because it will leave you full as your favorite meal.”