Just months before the literary luminary and Nobel laureate died this year, Toni Morrison published a collection of 43 works of short nonfiction from the past four decades. Through the course of these essays, lectures and eulogies, Morrison trains her attention on an array of subjects: those killed during 9/11; Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Baldwin; blackness and whiteness; womanhood; art; language; migration; discrimination; and imagination. The anthology, organized by theme, offers its owners everlasting entry into the supreme observations of one of our most transcendent minds.
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