Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City Star
“Powerful. . . . A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as
fierce as it is resonant.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York
Times
“A tragicomic jazz opera played out in four parts. . . . Morrison
makes art from the cadences of human heartbreak.” —The Atlantic
“Beautiful. . . . God Help the Child is superb, its story gliding
along the tracks of Morrison’s utterly assured prose.” —USA
Today
“Unflinching, gorgeously written.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Magnificent. . . . Morrison remains an incredibly powerful writer
who commands attention no matter the story she is telling.” —The
Guardian (London)
“Sly, savage, honest, and elegant. . . . Once again, Morrison
thrillingly brings the storytelling moxie and mojo that make her,
arguably, our greatest living novelist.” —Elle
“Exquisite. . . . Morrison has a Shakespearean sense of tragedy,
and that gift imbues God Help the Child.” —Newsday
“The Nobel Prize winner continues to create beauty from the anger
and defining wounds of her characters. . . . Bears a lifetime’s
worth of anger and sorrow, distilled to their essences and fiercely
hung onto, tooth and claw.” —The Christian Science Monitor
“Glorious and incendiary.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
“There is a new urgency to Morrison’s work, a desire to tell the
story itself, without embellishment or ornamentation. . . .
Morrison [is] the undisputed interpreter of the American black
experience.” —The Boston Globe
“Morrison gives us an unflinching look at the wounds that adults
can inflict on children with life-altering consequences. . . . Few
authors can deliver exquisitely written prose as Morrison.”
—Essence.com
“Haunting. . . . Moving. . . . Fearless. . . . God Help the Child
yet again proves that Toni Morrison is an icon.” —Bustle
“Both timely and timeless. . . . A pleasure. . . . As she shows
with such brevity and eloquence in God Help the Child, having and
healing don’t necessarily happen at the same time.” —The Seattle
Times
“A book to be read twice at a minimum—the first time for the story,
and the second time to savor the language, the gems of phrasing and
the uncomfortable revelations about the human capacity both to love
and destroy.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Breathtaking prose. . . . A new Morrison book is always cause for
celebration.” —The Dallas Morning News
“We have stepped into, once again, another of Morrison’s fertile
landscapes. . . . It is a blessing that she still speaks with such
salvific force and poetic grace.” —The Plain Dealer
“Heartbreaking. . . . [Morrison] continues to dazzle. . . .
Morrison—like Bride—is still reinventing herself as a writer. And
just getting better.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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