A Mercy

Dear Toni Morrison–

“Beloved” is still my favorite. But its status as a close contender means it's great enough to merit a resounding “Fuck yeah.”

Love,
julia

Although Morrison makes her fiction challenging, it is worth the effort, and these are memorable characters in a memorable story about hardship and slavery in the 17th Century. My full review is at Perpetual Folly.

I felt like I should have really liked this book, but I just did not. I found the writing very confusing and difficult to read, the switching of persons narrating was especially hard to follow. I also felt the book was just to short, I never became invested with any of the characters, they were all very one dimensional and dare I say, rather boring. Sadly, this one just wasn't my cup of tea!

This is small story, a story about a little girl on her way to find someone to save her mistress, but all of the ideas here, the histories, are BIG, BIG, BIG. I loved it. It didn't work as an audio book for me, because I found myself wanting to reread sentences but I had a digital copy so I ended up reading (really savoring it).