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God help the child / Toni Morrison.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307399755 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 178 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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| Subject: | African Americans > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Morri | 31681002502425 | FICTION | Available | - |
| Stroud Branch | LP FIC Morri | 31681002504579 | LARGEPT | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
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 centre: a 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 until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish.... Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother ... Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother ... and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget."
