![]() Her name becomes shorthand for a republic of women and black artists with "no home in this place" to borrow a phrase from Morrison's Nobel lecture, people who create, reclaim and celebrate art that is intent on offering something of use back to the people whom it illuminates. ![]() With God Help The Child, Morrison - America's only living Nobel Prize-winning novelist - has offered us not only her 11th novel, but an opportunity to meditate on the tension between the idea of the artist and the reality of the artist herself. When we talk about Toni Morrison, we are also talking about what it means to thrive in the midst of well-manicured and eloquent hostility. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title God Help the Child Author Toni Morrison ![]()
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