Thanks to Kristin Berkey-Abott for this post on Toni Morrison. Kristin is right: Morrison’s work really is “difficult” on multiple levels and I, for one, have tended to shy away from her novels after being relatively traumatized by Beloved and Song of Solomon in times past. Now, am happy to find that Morrison has a healthy Kindle page and have just downloaded Home. Deep breath.
[...] not the experience I had hoped for in this post. Here are two diametrically opposed online reviews of Toni Morrison’s Home: one is headlined [...]