God Help the Child

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Call Number: Fiction / Morrison, Toni, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Morrison, Toni
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Morrison, Toni	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Morrison, Toni	4-week checkout	On Shelf
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Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Morrison, Toni	4-week checkout	Due 04-29-2024

Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--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."

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