Toni Morrison was born in Loraine, Ohio, in 1931. She attended Howard University, then received a master's degree in English at Cornell University, where she wrote a thesis on William Faulkner. Gaze, Script and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson case. An editor at Random House for many years, Morrison now teaches fiction writing at Princeton University. Well, I would imagine there would be some difference of opinion on what the book is like or what it meant.
Some people are maybe more invested in reading it from a certain point of view.
The daily review in The New York Times was extremely unflattering about this book. And I thought, more to the point, it was not well written. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. I know there are authors who find it healthier for them, in their creative process, to just not look at any reviews, or bad reviews, or they have them filtered, because sometimes they are toxic for them. I don't agree with that kind of isolation.