A Mercy

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In “one of Morrison’s most haunting works” ( The New York Times ), the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved , it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. One of the New York Times ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its inf