Toni Morrison to publish new novel on childhood trauma — theguardian.com

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will release a new novel next spring “about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult”, her publisher has announced. Morrison, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1993 for novels that the committee said were “characterised by visionary force and poetic import [and which give] life to an essential aspect of American reality”, will publish God Help the Child on 30 April 2015. Her 11th novel is the story of 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”, according to Morrison’s US publisher Knopf.

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