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Title: Morrison's weaknesses overwhelm her
Review: Ever since Sula, Morrison has been developing a penchant for mythic characters and situations, a prose style which is more oratory than specific, and situations and events which are neither realistic nor magical but a way to avoid dealing with real life. All of these flaws are brought together, exponentially, in this text. The faults are too many to go into great depth: the narrative is too fractured; too much "poetry" (poetry, Toni, is concrete and minimal, not flowery); one-dimensional characters. But the worst flaw is how Morrison dodges saying anything critical about black people or women, and instead, after a brutal execution, everyone is forgiven and lives on in paradise. Toni, this response to the world is too easy.
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