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In this brief and searing novel, Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison channels the historic sweep and dramatic heft that animated Beloved and A Mercy into a twentieth-century tale of redemption.

"Powerful.... As always, Morrison's prose is immaculate, jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity...brims with affection and optimism. The gains here are hard won, but honestly earned, and sweet as love."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"Haunting.... Ms. Morrison has found a new, angular voice and straight-ahead storytelling style that showcase her knowledge of her characters, and the ways in which violence and passion and regret are braided through their lives, the ways in which love and duty can redeem a blighted past."
- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Home is the story of a brother and sister who are profoundly lost, divided from each other and from themselves. When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee; after the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger. In Frank's cross-country quest to rescue his sister, Toni Morrison masterfully compresses the rich sprawl of epic into the urgent tautness of fable.

Frank is adrift and deeply haunted, a modern Odysseus returning from war to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black man. But the most fearsome demons he faces are those of his own past-both the horrors of combat and the traumas of a childhood in the Deep South. As he journeys back to his native Georgia in search of Cee, it becomes clear that their troubles began well before their wartime separation. Together, they return to the source, to their rural hometown of Lotus, where buried secrets are unearthed and hard truths faced. Here is where Frank learns at last what it means to be a man, what it takes to heal, and-above all-what it means to come home.

“Haunting . . . [Morrison] maps the day-to-day lives of her characters with lyrical precision. . . . Home encapsulates all the themes that have fueled her fiction, from the early novels Sula and The Bluest Eye, through her dazzling masterwork, Beloved.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Gorgeous and intense, brutal yet heartwarming. . . . Accessible, tightly composed and visceral as anything Morrison has yet written. . . . [A] devastating, deeply humane?and ever-relevant?book.” -Heller McAlpin, NPR

“Luminescent. . . . There is no novelist alive who has captured the beauty and democracy of the American vernacular so well.” -The Boston Globe

“Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity. . . . Brims with affection and optimism.” -San Francisco Chronicle

“This scarily quiet tale packs all the thundering themes Morrison has explored before. She’s never been more concise, though, and that restraint demonstrates the full range of her power. . . . A daringly hopeful story about the possibility of healing - or at least surviving in a shadow of peace.” -Ron Charles, The Washington Post

“A fertile narrative imbued with and embellished by Morrison’s visionary scope and poetic majesty.” -Elle

“A bona fide literary event . . . an emotional powerhouse. . . . Told in the stark, economical tone of a short story, with all the philosophical heft of a novel.” -Entertainment Weekly

A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction
A Best Book of the Year: NPR, AV Club, St. Louis Dispatch

When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger.

Frank is a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black man. As he journeys to his native Georgia in search of Cee, it becomes clear that their troubles began well before their wartime separation. Together, they return to their rural hometown of Lotus, where buried secrets are unearthed and where Frank learns at last what it means to be a man, what it takes to heal, and?above all?what it means to come home.