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This New York Times Notable Book is an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man.

When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, he journeys to his native Georgia with a renewed sense of purpose in search of his sister, but it becomes clear that their troubles began well before their wartime separation. Together, they return to their rural hometown of Lotus, where buried secrets are unearthed and where Frank learns at last what it means to be a man, what it takes to heal, and--above all--what it means to come home.

A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction
A Best Book of the Year: NPR, AV Club, St. Louis Dispatch

Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/01/2013
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.21w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780307740915

Review Citation(s):
People Weekly 01/21/2013 pg. 57
New York Times Book Review 01/27/2013 pg. 24
Entertainment Weekly 02/22/2013 pg. 82

About the Author

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.