Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who 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 that he’s hated all his life.

A Mercy is a visceral, intricately textured novel that takes readers right to the origins of America, a place where the seeds of the racial, religious, and class tensions that would later come to fruition in revolution and civil war were already being sown. It is a place where people are forced to make wrenching decisions.

2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Toni Morrison's first novel, THE BLUEST EYE. Here, the Nobel Prize winner powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity --- and asks questions about race, class and gender with her characteristic subtlety and grace.