The Source of Self-Regard

The Source of Self-Regard is the speeches, essays and short storybook that contains the events from the life of the author. Toni Morrison is the author of this outstanding book. She is an award-winning author who has written 11 amazing novels. The “Faulkner and Women”, recall the personal journey of Toni. She was born in American-African family. Toni grew up while seeing racism in society. The entire black community in America struggles but Toni was the one who likes to fight. She believes in hard work and fights for rights. Toni wanted to become a writer from her childhood and no one can stop her from becoming that she wanted. She recalls the most devastating event in the history of the Americans when 9/11 happens. “The Dead of September 11”, tears the lives of thousands of Americans who are there at the world trade centre. The whole world was standing with these people but the loss of the people cannot be recovered. She also writes on the racism that in America, writers and their books get popularity who write about white Americas. Toni raised the awareness that African-American are also the people of this country and they have equal rights to live with it.

The Bluest Eye

“The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)” is a forever green novel that entreating the readers from beginning to end with an impressive and heart-melting story. Toni Morrison is the author of this fabulous novel. The author has a great name is fiction and classy novel writing. His excellent writing skills and way of storytelling always keep the reader on the edge of the seat. This novel has great characters with fantastic bonding. It is well written with well-developed characters and a story that just went on and on weaving in more and more background facts about the characters and their family. It came to a satisfactory and somewhat surprising end, with mini conclusions along the way. It is really good book engages you and keeps you flipping pages when you really need to get other things done. The characters and plot are rich and varied. To cut the story short, it is one of the best and heart-melting novels that have a new story on every page.

Beloved

Beloved by Toni Morrison is a thriller and historical fiction novel which describe the life of a slave woman who escaped and start living in Ohio with her family. Toni Morrison is the author of this classic novel. There is a middle age woman, living her life as a slave. She born as a slave in the city and spends her most of the life in slavery. Sathe is married and the mother of the four children. She is desperate to find the freedom for herself and for the family but she could not manage in the end. One day, she somehow manages to escape to Ohio. After getting there, she is still no free from her owners. They keep tracking him to get her and in the result, she sacrifices the life of her one daughter. She killed one of her daughters by herself to make sure others were safe. Now after eighteen years, she escaped from her hometown but still misses her sweet home no matter how hard life was there. There are some old memories which bring the smile to her lips. One day, the strange incident happens when the ghost of her daughter appears in her house. The ghost starts making there life difficult and does not let them to their regular work. They are very upset that they meet with the strange woman and she knows what to do next.

God Help the Child

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish ... Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother ... Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother ... and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget."

Paradise

“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.

Song of Solomon

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world."You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else — they're transcendent, all of them. You’ll be glad you read them." —Barack Obama

Sula

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life."You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else — they're transcendent, all of them. You’ll be glad you read them."--Barack Obama

The Origin of Others

What Moves at the Margin