God Help the Child - Toni Morrison • BookLikes (ISBN:030774910X)

God Help the Child

by: Toni Morrison (author)

The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Spare and unsparing, "God Help the Child" is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty,... show more

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Format: Audio CD

ISBN: 9780307749109 (030774910X)

Publisher: Books on Tape

Edition language: English

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Novels, Literature, Cultural, Adult Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult, African American, Contemporary, Womens, Fiction

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Thewanderingjew rated it

10 years ago

http://Thewanderingjew.booklikes.com Thewanderingjew 4.0 "Very intuitive narrative about racial struggles.

text "Very intuitive narrative about racial struggles.

God Help The Child, Toni Morrison For me, this was a tender story about growing up black with all of the pain and hardship that may one day be rewarded with success and joy. The struggles of the children that witness or suffer from the senseless crime and prejudice coming from within their own commu...

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Beamis12 rated it

10 years ago

http://Beamis12.booklikes.com Beamis12 4.0 God help the child

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Absolutely amazing, Morrison can put a story together as very few can. Although only a short novel, so much is said, so much emotional territory is covered. When Sweetness, a light skinned black gives birth to a blue black baby, she is appalled as is her husband who quickly leaves the family. Treati...

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