Critical Praise

"It's a dense, dark star of a novel, seemingly eccentric, secretly shapely, … and with Morrison writing at the top of her game."

——David Gates, Newsweek

"Haunting . . . In lyrical flashbacks, Morrison slowly, teasingly reveals the glories and horrors of the past . . . Morrison has crafted a gorgeous, stately novel."

——Publisher's Weekly

"Love is a profound novel. As a vivid painter of human emotions, Morrison is without peer, her impressions rendered in an exquisitely metaphoric but comfortably open style."

——Brad Hooper, Booklist (starred and boxed review)

"A gorgeous deployment of enigmatic flashbacks…Love is an elegantly shaped epic of infatuation, enslavement, and liberation: a rich and heartening return to Nobel-worthy form."

——Kirkus (starred review)

"Love seduces with Toni Morrison's signature lush prose and colorfully complex, textured scenes of human longing, scheming, suffering, and loss."

——Lisa Shea, Elle