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In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.
Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, "with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady." Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.
There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress, Rebekka, herself a victim of religious intolerance back in England; Sorrow, a strange girl who's spent her early years at sea; and finally the devastating voice of Florens' mother. These are all men and women inventing themselves in the wilderness.
A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
Acts of mercy may have unforeseen consequences.
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The first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison, who passed away on August 5, 2019, left behind a legacy of wisdom in her novels and essays. Her work explores topics like human nature, happiness, love, and enduring hardships, but also delves into the subject of freedom and what that has meant for African Americans. These quotes will get you through tough times, inspire you to look at yourself, and much more.
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Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making.
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A relaxing meditation on identity, gender and art
- De redhidari en 10-01-15
De: Maggie Nelson
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Veronica
- De: Mary Gaitskill
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of fashion-modeling in Paris and Rome. When her career crashes and a love affair ends disastrously, she moves to New York City to build a new life. There she meets Veronica: an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style, a proofreader who comes to work with a personal "office kit" and a plaque that reads "Still Anal After All These Years".
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Everything is baroque-en
- De Eric en 12-14-06
De: Mary Gaitskill
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two romances - Jessica's dizzying infatuation with a hugely successful young heroin dealer, Boy George; and Coco's first love with Jessica's little brother, Cesar - Random Family is the story of young people trying to outrun their destinies.
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Speechless
- De Amazon Customer en 09-02-19
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10:04
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.
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A novel worth reading
- De Bradley Paul Valentine en 01-29-15
De: Ben Lerner
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Home
- A Novel
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. This is a deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and his home.
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not a novel, but a collection of short stories
- De Melinda en 06-14-12
De: Toni Morrison
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The Vegetarian
- A Novel
- De: Han Kang
- Narrado por: Deborah Smith, Janet Song, Stephen Park
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her.
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Pronunciation!
- De J L Pasricha en 03-20-16
De: Han Kang
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- De: Katherine Boo
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
- De: Marlon James
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, y otros
- Duración: 26 h
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Winner, The Man Booker Prize, 2015 Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s.
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A Tough Read
- De KP en 05-07-16
De: Marlon James
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The Human Stain
- De: Philip Roth
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It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America—a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.
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Salvage the Bones
- A Novel
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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A hurricane is building, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's 14 and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.
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Good but I wish I hadn't read it.
- De Jeanie en 01-26-21
De: Jesmyn Ward
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Citizen
- An American Lyric
- De: Claudia Rankine
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 1 h y 37 m
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Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV - everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive.
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Important Work But Audio Is Missing a Lot
- De David P en 08-30-17
De: Claudia Rankine
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The Years
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges.
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Mixed Feelings
- De Elin VanD en 05-10-20
De: Annie Ernaux
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Mercy
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- Sarah
- 02-04-14
Absolutely LOVED this!!
Would you listen to A Mercy again? Why?
I will definitely listen to this again. I loved everything about it...and hated when it was done.
What did you like best about this story?
I felt connected and invested emotionally in the characters and their lives. I could "see" these people as I listened.
What about Toni Morrison’s performance did you like?
Her voice is captivating...I suppose her being the author allowed for the telling of the story the way she intended as opposed to how another narrator would have interpreted it. The emotion and passion of what she wanted to portray were felt.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I actually did complete all of the book minus about 45 mins in one sitting. It was truly that good!
Any additional comments?
I love Toni Morrison's work. This was the first time I've listened to a book and now I cannot wait to listen to her "Beloved" even though I've read it twice already!
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- amrasa
- 02-01-24
Excellent story
The beginning was slow listening, then progressed as a great story. Really enjoyed the analysis at the end.
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- Jill Huggins
- 08-18-21
Difficult story to follow. Enjoyed TM nterview.
I found it a difficult story to follow as there were
many references to the characters previous lives Intertwined with the more current accounts of that period. Thus requiring this reader to review many chapters/ passages to get a clearer picture of the story.
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- kd
- 08-26-12
Amazing story
Historically accurate, engrossing tale of North American immigrants before the revolutionary war. The interview with Toni Morrison at the end was especially good.
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- Louie Hamilton-Martinez
- 05-29-20
Masterful folklore inculcation and empathy shared
Nearly a year after my soulmate's rest, A Mercy is approved for CAW-tM.
The betrayals of women to become mothers and of the men who revered them are uniquely inherent emnities bonded since the dawn of Creation.
The story of Jakob and Rebecca Vaark relates so much to the Christian storylines of Creation regarding Adam's walk with his god (Jakob with the blacksmith) and Yaashra'al's relationship with his mother impacting his stewardship towards his wives and possessions (Sir Vaark's adventures on his day job, managing the liquidity of gentry like Senyor's; the trips to the saloons; the introduction to an arranged marriage to Rebecca)
My zeal for A Mercy zeniths in Flourence physical trek to save the life of Mistress Rebecca, in finding the smithee. This trek and the character taking it reminds me of a struggle I face with everyday with mortality and with those few who depend on me frequently from a foreground aspect. I find that I need a holding down and tussle with an angel, like the blacksmith, to not only keep from pleasing folk at my expense, but to seek from our Creator the blessings he uniquely has for me.
A hero saves those in distress, not only from the dangers around them, if not those ones depreciated in distress. The common sense adage, "God helps those who help themselves," isn't in the Bible, and this adage isn't accurate by one word, "themselves." The reasoning is this: "must a gambler sell all his possessions to risk for earning more. How happy will that person be if he wins it all, and lose his soul?" For a protagonist caricature like Jakob Vaark, the hero risks his life to teach the underprivileged of society how to read and gives values to their lives, yet he cannot save his own life.
A hero is one whom God helps to help others. Why otherwise would Jesus willfully allow others to nail him to a tree to die? He will die to resurrect Senyora Morrison, if she allowed him to dine with her despite what her family may think.
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- C. Gaylord
- 04-27-14
I had to buy the book!
I hadn't finished listening to Ms Morrison narrate her book when I ordered it from Amazon.com. When the book arrived, I read along as Ms Morrison narrated it. Her reading cadence exposes subtleties that I would have missed had I read the story to myself. A Mercy sheds light on our dark history. It also leaves me puzzled about some things. A tremendous amount of research went into writing A Mercy. It is not a off-the-top-of-one's-head novel. I will do some research myself and then read the book again. Oh, and not all indentured people were black. NOTE: A very informative interview follows the narration of this book.
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- Zerita V Phillips
- 01-27-23
Captivating use of language.
A brilliant telling of a story from a perspective not often imagined, considered, or explored.
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- Jennifer W. Gardiner
- 01-15-23
Mercy
Thanks Toni. This is a great novel. The interview was also informative. I thoroughly enjoyed this audible.
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- Judith Seaboyer
- 11-23-08
Toni Morrison
What a gift to have Toni Morrison read her exquisite novel, and to have the pleasure of an interview in addition. How gracious she is as an interviewee, especially given how much of it she must have to do on book tours and so on.
Don't miss this! And even if you've read Beloved on the page, do consider listening to Morrison read that, too.
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- Tater
- 12-23-08
Listening was a challenge
Sorry, I love Toni Morrison's writing, and she has a lovely rich voice, but her pauses are as regular as a slow ticking clock no matter how long the sentence or how varied its structure. I found myself predicting each pause, which made listening to the story less than optimum, tedious, in fact. I have the same opinion of the spoken version of Beloved, one of my favorite books. Please, Ms. Morrison, your novels deserve professional readers.
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