God Help the Child

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 they might never forget.”

“Powerful…. A tale that is as forceful as it is affecting, as fierce as it is resonant.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Author: Toni Morrison
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 04/21/2015
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780307594174
Language: English