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May 23, 2012

Book Review: Home by Toni Morrison

Let's be real here. Toni Morrison can't produce a bad book! Her latest, Home, is no different. It's a good story. It's short (only about 150+ pages). It's poignant.


The story itself centers on Frank Money: an angry, self-loathing veteran (we find out why after a bit of reading) of the Korean War who finds himself back in America. His girlfriend leaves him. He relives terrible memories not only of his friends dying, but of killing. His redemption comes by the need to rescue his abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life.

It's a novel about a defeated man who finds Home.

We can all only hope to be just a beautiful with our words as Toni Morrison. From opening to closing sentence, it was as if she was performing linguistic magic tricks. I think that is where much of this short novel's power comes from: beautiful language. This the perhaps one of the easiest Toni Morrison books to read to date, but no less wonderful.

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