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."

Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/26/2016
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780307740922
ISBN10: 0307740927
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | African American & Black | Women

About the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.