God Help the Child A novel

Toni Morrison

eBook - 2015

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And the...y might never forget.” “Powerful.... A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant.” —Michiko...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Toni Morrison
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size2 GB
ISBN9780385353175
Release Date4/21/2015
OverDrive Read eBook
File Size407 MB
ISBN9780385353175
Release Date4/21/2015