01398cam a2200253 i 450000100070000000500170000700800410002402000480006502000480011302000260016102000330018704000280022004200080024805000240025608200080028010000200028824500410030826400400034930000200038950000290040952006380043865000320107665000360110812333920230410132649.0141024s2015    nyu           000 1 eng    a9780307594174 (hardcover : acid-free paper)  a9780307740922 (softcover : acid-free paper)  z9780385353175 (ebook)  z9780307749109 (compact disc)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  apcc14aPS 3563bM878g 201500a8131 aMorrison, Toni.10aGod help the child /cToni Morrison. 1aNew York :bAlfred A. Knopf,c2015.  a178 p. ;c22 cm  a"This is a Borzoi book."  aA 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." 0aAfrican AmericansvFiction. 0aMothers and daughtersvFiction.