Mark McGurl’s The Program Era claims that this novel reflects its author’s experiences teaching at SUNY-Albany in its ambiguity about education. This book losing the National Book Award to Paco’s Story spurred an open letter in the New York Times praising its author. (15[1])Laura Murphy’s campaign against this book inspired Virginia’s HB516, (15[1])which was vetoed by Terry McAuliffe. That (-5[1])author described learning about this book’s title character (15[1])in a “shock of liberation” after leaving her (-5[1])job at (*) Random House, (10[1]-5[1])while (10[1])it (-5[1])also directly reflected her work editing The Black Book. (10[1])Margaret Garner’s story (-5[1])inspired (10[2])a major plot (10[2])point (10[1])in this (10[1])novel (10[3]-5[1])about a (10[1])murder at 124 (10[1])Bluestone (10[4])Road, (10[16])which is later told to Paul D. For 10 points, (10[1])name this novel about the return of the ghost of Sethe’s child (10[1])by Toni (10[1])Morrison. ■END■ (10[5])