Toni Morrison

Book cover of Tar Baby

Tar Baby

Book Résumé Toni Morrison: A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and […]

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Book cover of Sula

Sula

Book Résumé Toni Morrison: At its center–a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel–both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town–meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes. Through their girlhood years they share everything–perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime–until

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Book cover of Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

Book Résumé Toni Morrison: The story of Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation. (Fiction, Adult) Report Censorship

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Book cover of Paradise

Paradise

Book Résumé Toni Morrison: As the novel begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. (Fiction, Adult) Report Censorship

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Book cover of Love

Love

Book Résumé Toni Morrison: In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee, mistress: As Morrison’s protagonists stake their furious claim on Cosey’s memory and estate, using everything from intrigue to

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Book cover of The Bluest Eye.

The Bluest Eye

Book Résumé Toni Morrison: Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine

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Book cover of Beloved.

Beloved

Book Résumé Toni Morrison: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of “Beloved.” Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the

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