Morrison, Toni

A mysterious voice weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.

Four young women living in a convent near Ruby, Oklahoma, are viciously attacked in 1976 after residents become convinced the women are the source of the problems that have been sweeping the exclusively African-American community.

Traces the lives of two African-American heroines from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, to their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.

Collected interviews with Nobel prize winning author, Toni Morrison, revealing her feelings about her life and work as an African-American woman writer.

Contains twenty-five conversations held between Toni Morrison and journalists, scholars, and novelists over the course of nearly thirty years, in which the Nobel Prize-winning author shares her thoughts on her life, work, African-American history and culture, and American society.

The late Bill Cosey, one-time owner of the Cosey Hotel and Resort, a hot spot for vacationing African-Americans, is kept alive through the memories of the women he loved and who were loved by him.

Sula Peace returns to her hometown of Medallion, Ohio, in 1937 after a decade away, bringing danger and controversy into the life of her childhood friend Nel--now a conventional housewife--with whom she shares a dark secret.

Historically racialized society's effect on American writing.

Sula Peace and Nel Wright share not only an intimate friendship, but an unspoken secret. Sula leaves Medallion for ten years and when she dies three years after her return, Nel is her only mourner.