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Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
This is as gripping and, at times, harrowing as any of Morrison's books and has been acclaimed by many as among her best. It concerns the stormy history of Ruby, an Oklahoma town set up by African-Americans for African-Americans, whose citizens are committed to the twin virtues of religion and self-help. The book's focal point is a brutal vigilante attack on a group of women who live in a former convent on the outskirts of the town. We then hear the individual stories of each of the women, and some of the townspeople. The women's stories especially make compelling reading: Seneca, abandoned as a child; Connie, a Portuguese street-child rescued by missionary nuns; Mavis, wrongly accused of murdering her twin babies; Gigi, in love with soft drugs and good times. Compassionate, violent and magical - this is essential reading. Shortlisted for the 1999 Orange Prize. (Kirkus UK)
