Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is a luminary that needs little or no introduction to readers worldwide. She is the recipient of several awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, and the first African American writer, indeed the first black woman, to win the Nobel Prize in literature. In this class, we will focus on her last five novels: Paradise (1997), Love (2003), A Mercy (2008), Home (2012), and God Help the Child (2015). We will also explore her short story “Recitatif.” If you have read any of Morrison’s fiction, be it The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, or Jazz, then you probably already know what an extraordinary storyteller she is. But if you’re new to her work, or are curious about the Morrison fame, the texts we will examine alongside scholarship and documentaries on Morrison will help us appreciate why she is not just a major author, but one of the most gifted, impactful, unforgettable, and decorated writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.