Morrison’s 2013 book, Home, is short – maybe a novella? What
is a novella? Whatever, this is another of
Morrison’s engaging stories. It swings from the raw to the heartening, moves
between voices and juxtaposes elements of the new and of the
familiar with consummate ease. Such is her craft, her light touch that offers
depth, her insight that exposes but rarely judges.
Frank and Cee, brother and sister, and the people they
collide with in their young and often innocent lives, are so very real in
Morrison’s hands. She weaves the story of their childhood, of their leaving and
returning to their community into the contemporary nature of a time that fails
them and many others.
Although short, this is a complete book, and, as always,
with Morrison, one in which every word counts, where there is no waste. Such a
talent.
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