![]() Restless in their little town, raised under the thumb of a mean step-grandmother while their parents work themselves to death in the fields, Frank and Cee are both eager to leave Lotus. ![]() Most of the book takes place in the early 1950s. That mysterious, perilous moment will mark them, and come back to haunt them in strange ways. ![]() ![]() That moment of awe is crushed when they try to leave and must hide from a group of men, witnessing from the tall grass the burial of a black man in a rude grave. They watched in wonder as a pair of stallions, "so beautiful. There they crawled under a fence they were not interested in a nearby building surrounded by cars, but in a herd of horses. In the early 1940s, Frank, then about 8, walked with his little sister, Cee, from their tiny, all-black town of Lotus, Ga., to a pasture a few miles away. It begins with a memory, narrated by Frank Money, one of the two main characters. She became a literary icon with epic works like Beloved Home is more compact, a novella really - but one packed with more memorable characters, striking images and emotional insights than many novels three times its size. Morrison, 81, is already a Nobel and Pulitzer prize winner in April it was announced she will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Thomas Wolfe famously wrote that you can't go home again, but Toni Morrison's new book suggests that sometimes it's the best and only place you can go. ![]()
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