Toni Morrison: A Mercy [2009] paperback IBIOG provocative and fresh as a

provocative and fresh as a daisy' Literary Review

and absolutely crackling

she dares to hope that Alaska will lead to a better future for her family

faces mortality and looks back on his passions

Toni Morrison: A Mercy [2009] paperback IBIOG provocative and fresh as a'A beautiful and important book' The Times On the day that Jacob, an Anglo Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. With her keen intelligence and passion for wearing the cast off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blurred into the background and now at the age of eight she is uprooted from her family to begin a new life with a new master. She ends up