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"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"-- Provided by publisher.

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Toni Morrison's Home submitted by ccrose on July 10, 2019, 2:31pm Written in 2012, I picked it up now, 2019, and found it on the mark because of our 17 years of veterans coming home, many damaged. It's a kind of "coming home after you swore you'd never go home again" story. A Korea veteran, Frank Money, drags himself back into the 'other life' exhausted and haunted with PTSD from the terrible things he 'had to' do. He finds cruelty, violence, bigotry laid right in his lap. He finds kindness too. After being ambushed by a gang, robbed of the little bit of money he had. A stranger helped him up and stuffed a twenty dollar bill into his shirt pocket. He's driven to return to Georgia, where he grew up, to find his only family member, sister Cee.
What I noticed about Morrison's writing is that it still feels real, that the sentences sing in their rhythms and language. What was different was the absence of a strong build of tension and dread, rather a sameness throughout*. He wasn't a mighty warrior home to get revenge. He had put all his weapons down.
It felt good to revisit the writing. The small moments between people that say everything.
*i recently learned Morrison was in the middle of writing “Home” when her son Slade, died of pancreatic cancer. Her energy for writing was likely diverted toward grieving.