Book

God help the child / Toni Morrison.

Morrison, Toni. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0307740927 (softcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780307740922 (softcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0307594173 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780307594174 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780307594174 : HRD
ISBN: 0307594173 : HRD
ISBN: 9780307594174 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0307594173 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780307399755
ISBN: 0307399753
ISBN: 9780701186050
ISBN: 0701186054
Physical Description: 178 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"This is a Borzoi book."

Summary, etc.:

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."