{"product_id":"the-seer-toni-morrison","title":"The Seer \/\/ Toni Morrison Among the Ruins (Pre-order, Jan 12 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom an acclaimed scholar and longtime friend of Toni Morrison, an intimate and searching account of the life and the art of one of our greatest and most prophetic writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFew critics have mapped the terrain of black American literature and culture with the range, rigor, and moral seriousness of Farah Jasmine Griffin. Now she brings her full intellectual force to bear—offering a gem of literary compression that captures the essence of an extraordinary life journey, the indelible work it produced, and the lessons it holds for us still.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoving gracefully between biography, literary criticism, and memoir, Griffin traces Toni Morrison’s journey from Lorain, Ohio, to Howard and Cornell Universities, from single mother and trailblazing editor at Random House to Nobel laureate and global moral voice. Along the way, Griffin reveals the fierce intelligence, discipline, humor, and uncompromising vision that shaped Morrison’s art and life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThreaded throughout is a powerful exploration of Morrison’s enduring themes—ruins and renewal, memory and prophecy, patriarchy and love—and the ways they illuminate America’s past and present. Griffin writes as both a preeminent scholar of Morrison’s work and one of our most searching critics of black American literature and culture. The result is a major reassessment of Morrison’s legacy, as well as a testament to mentorship, intellectual kinship, and shared vocation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a book about how a great writer is formed, how she shapes a nation’s imagination, and how, even amid fracture, she shows us how to build again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFarah Jasmine Griffin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of \u003cb\u003e\"Who Set You Flowin'?\": The African-American Migration Narrative\u003c\/b\u003e, and the coeditor of \u003cb\u003eA Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing\u003c\/b\u003e. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. She lives in Philadelphia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: January 12, 2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9780593491102\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches | 0.8 pounds\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Biography \u0026amp; Memoir, Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Farah Jasmine Griffin","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, Jan 12 2027) Hardcover","offer_id":49113037340907,"sku":"9780593491102","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/cover_coming_soon.png?v=1784938324","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/the-seer-toni-morrison","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}