Excerpt from A Mercy by Toni Morrison

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By Toni Morrison
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the November 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Start reading the first chapter of A Mercy, the eighth novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.

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