Toni Morrison in general

Toni Morrison is one of those writers who could change your life. As a white sort-of middle class teenager, I knew nothing about race issues in America until I encountered Morrison, and her writing deeply affected me. Her work is political, exquisite and often very confusing. Overview of the books (I think this is most of the fiction, I've not yet read any non fiction, but she has published academic work on race issues.) 'Beloved' a stuning, prize winning novel dealing with the lengths one woman will go to in order to keep her children out of slavery. Violence, passions, ghosts and vengeance, a plot that will tie you in knots and characters ...