God Help the Child Toni Morrison Toni Morrison, an author that I gladly read twice, thrice, whatever it takes, that I study and annotate and emulate, came out with her highly anticipated novel, God Help the Child. Even with her illustrious presence as author, literary thought leader, Nobel, Pulitzer, et al., this, her eleventh novel,…
The Known World Edward P. Jones Why you have to read this book… Brilliant.…So utterly original that it makes most everything previously written about slavery seem outdated and pedestrian. It belongs on the shelf with other classics of slavery, like Toni Morrison’s Beloved and William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner. -Atlanta Journal-Constitution One of…
I just finished a great read, Beloved, by Toni Morrison, an even greater author. The book’s namesake, Beloved, is a ghost, but to say this is a ghost story in the expected sense would be misleading. It is instead, a story about how the past can stifle or even haunt the present and you, like…
Simply Forgotten 