A Mercy by Toni Morrison

What can I say about the work of a Nobel-prize-winning writer? Toni Morison, author of A Mercy reminds me of another Nobel prize winner: William Faulkner. Both present their characters with distinctive voices: integrating syntax and vocabulary with assumptions and philosophies. A Mercy is told from the points of view of several women coping with the realities of late 17th century America: slavery, indentured servitude, and subjugation of women.

In a style, reminiscent of William Faulkner, the story unfolds with a minimum of exposition, as each character narrates their experiences in stream of consciousness.

From the book jacket:

Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved. There are other voices: Lina, whose tribe was decimated by smallpox; their mistress, Rebekka, herself a victim of religious intolerance back in England; Sorrow, a strange girl who's spent her early years at sea; and finally the devastating voice of Floren's mother.

What can I say about the work of a Nobel-prize-winning writer?