Playing in the Dark Format:Hardcover Ages: 10-14

Ages: 10-14

Lila’s left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation

“Transporting and deeply emotional

Publication Date: January 9

Playing in the Dark Format:Hardcover Ages: 10-14An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on raceand promises to change the way we read American literaturefrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfreeand that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires.