A Gift Incomplete: Toni Morrison <i>A Mercy<i> (Chatto and Windus 2008)

A Gift Incomplete: Toni Morrison A Mercy (Chatto and Windus 2008)

I should have known better than to trust the opening line of A Mercy, the first Toni Morrison novel to hit the shelves in around five years. The words come from Florens, a slave girl, given away by her mother when she was 8 years old, and it didn't take long for this abandoned little colt of a girl, with a love of shoes she could never afford, to get under my skin..