In a New York Times review, Michiko Kakutani said, “A Mercy conjures up the beautiful, untamed, lawless world that was America in the seventeenth-century with the same sort of lyrical, verdant prose that distinguished [Beloved],” calling the book “a heartbreaking account of lost innocence and fractured dreams…. One of Morrison’s most haunting works yet.”
In fact, The New York Times went on to name A Mercy as one of the 10 best books of 2009.
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