Friday, July 9, 2010
Book #48: A Mercy
Today I am starting 'A Mercy' by Toni Morrison. I am a sucker for slave stories, so I always end up loving all of her books. This is a story of a young girl who is sold to a trader in exchange for a bad debt from a plantation owner. The girl's mother agrees to give her daughter away in hopes of saving her life, but the daughter feels she can never forgive her mother for her abandonment.
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I finished 'A Mercy' this morning. I found that this book wasn't really about one character in particular, but several characters. All the people in the story were suffering and seemed to be really unwanted by everyone in their lives. Each person would have a brief sense of happiness and then it would be immediately replaced with tragedy. I liked this book, but found it confusing to read. There were so many people and so many different stories and the time lines seemed to be all over the place. I would compare this book more to 'Beloved' than Morrison's other books.
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