“This is the most accessible of the novels I’ve read by Toni Morrison, but it’s no less powerful for being readable. The story is about a Korean war veteran, Frank Money, who joined the army to escape from the home town in Georgia that he hated, and is now state-side again, suffering from what would now be diagnosed as PTSD and drifting aimlessly—until he gets word that his kid sister back in Georgia is in serious trouble and needs his help. Frank’s life, and his journey home, is blighted by incidents arising, almost casually, from the ingrained racism that characterized pre-Civil Rights America. I couldn’t help thinking as I read this book, that if Toni Morrison didn’t write about these things (as she does in amazingly economical prose) who else would?”—AC, Watermark Book Co., Anacortes, WA. Buy Home from your local indie.
Face Out
Home by Toni Morrison
June 4, 2012
