“Her color is a cross she will always carry,” her mother concludes with a deadening lack of subtlety. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Morrison opens God Help the Child with a character insisting, It’s not my fault.
I even thought of giving her away to an orphanage someplace.” In a line too close to a classic “Seinfeld” episode, when she went out with the baby carriage, “friends or strangers would lean down and peek in to say something nice and then give a start or jump back.” Bride’s father refuses to hold her and then abandons them both. God Help the Child - Kindle edition by Morrison, Toni. A fiery and provocative novel, God Help the Childthe first book by Toni Morrison to be set in our current momentweaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. “I wished she hadn’t been born with that terrible color. As an adult, she’s distractingly gorgeous, but when she was a child born in the 1990s, her mother regarded her “midnight black” skin as shockingly ugly: “She was so black she scared me,” Mom says in the opening soliloquy. Filled to the brim with beauty, pain, terror, and redemption, God Help the Child cuts like a diamond and shines like one too. She drives a “beautiful Jaguar” and wears only expensive white clothes. Released in April 2015 by beloved and Beloved author Toni Morrison, God Help the Child remains as timely and timeless as ever. Moving chapter by chapter through different narrators, the story revolves around a successful cosmetics designer who calls herself Bride.
But unfortunately, “God Help the Child” carries only a faint echo of that earlier novel’s power.
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