Seven unforgettable mother/child relationships in literature

One of seven top mother/child relationships in literature, as shared at the Vintage Books & Anchor Books Reading Group Center:A Mercy by Toni Morrison

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part