Toni Morrison on her novels: 'I think goodness is more interesting'

The Nobel laureate spoke about her quibbles with the title of her last book, and her conviction that goodness is complicated but possible

Toni Morrison wants everyone to know that she hates the title of her newest novel, God Help the Child.

The original title, Morrison said Tuesday night at Congregation Beth Elohim in New York, was The Wrath of Children, and in her opinion it was wonderful. It provided more clarity about a key theme of the novel: that what you do to children matters. The book isn’t just about anger, she says, it is about something stronger, about children’s fury “about what adults have done to them and how they tried to get through it and over it and around it and how it affected them”.

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