Is why we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over a disputed memory. An ex-salve is haunted by a lonely, rebukeful ghost, bent on bringing the past home. Strange and unexpected, yet always stirring. Morrison’s wiring on race sinks us deep into the heart and mind of our troubled humanity.