3 thoughts on “The New Yorker: “Sweetness” by Toni Morrison”

This is an excerpt from Morrison's new novel "God Helps Children" released in April this year. In this excerpt, a 60-year-old narrator lives in a moderate nursing home and tells her about her strict attitude towards her only child, Lula Ann. This is mainly because her daughter's skin is dark. The narrator himself came from a black family of thin skin - including past several, some families which may be too white - so having a very dark girl was a shock. Since she does not want people to think that she is a mother of a child, she asked the girl to call it "sweet". This type of shock is enough to break her marriage, which makes things for mothers and children more difficult.

As she worked very hard on Lula Ann, the girl departed as soon as possible. My mother did not have an address, but her daughter sent her money often and sent a note saying she was pregnant. The narrator does not know what Lula Ann is currently doing under a different name or who the father of the child is.

This is what we can say about this novel. It certainly will not be a wonderful story, but it presents an interesting novel. (This is a weekly comment by the publisher on the novel.)

Recalling Tony Morrison's last novel "A Mercy" (2008) among New Yorkers, John Updike called it "exposure to her slavery and shame of African American suffering". Another part of the fictitious projects necessary "The nobility and necessity of the company did not completely offset the fatigue from" the other part ", and Updike is a very limited art that it is exposed to the notorious pain He had the view that it was a funny spirit. In Morrison's best work such as "beloved" (1987) and "Song of Solomon" (1977), she did more than just exposure. And promotion. For the past 42 years since publishing "The Bluest Eyes" (1970), this is her first novel about self-hatred and chaotic rape in the black community. However, nearly half a century now, I have condemned atrocities as a fairly periodic company.

As a descendant of the Chippewa, the novelist Lewis El Drich is a thinker who donated 21 pieces of work to New Yorkers since 1989. Like Tony Morrison, Erdrich writes about communities and individuals who have suffered from the experience of their ancestors or struggled to escape from the dilemma. Using a simple and easy-to-read essay, her story often develops from multiple angles and creates a beautifully elliptical story. In "The Shawl" published in 2001, Erdrich produced a wonderful effect using this story style, while recording the abandonment of Anishinaabeg family and the legacy of violence. A young boy 's mother, Anna Quad, fell in love with another man and left him and his father after giving birth to a child. I could not understand how he took his older sister and her newborn baby, not his mother, so the boy chase the carriage and left.