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. Laura Murphy’s campaign against this book inspired Virginia’s HB516, which was vetoed by Terry McAuliffe. That author described learning about this book’s title character in a “shock of liberation” after leaving her job at (*) Random House, while it (-5[1])also directly reflected her work editing The Black Book. Margaret Garner’s story inspired (10[1])a major plot (10[1])point in this novel about a murder at 124 (10[1])Bluestone Road, (10[2])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 by Toni (10[1])Morrison. ■END■