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God help the child / Toni Morrison.
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. 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."
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307399755
- Physical Description: 178 p. ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2015.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CBCbooks.ca 2015 Summer Reading List |
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| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 14 of 15 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 15 total copies.
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