01451cam a2200277 i 4500 123339 20230410132649.0 141024s2015 nyu 000 1 eng 9780307594174 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 9780307740922 (softcover : acid-free paper) 9780385353175 (ebook) 9780307749109 (compact disc) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc PS 3563 M878g 2015 813 Morrison, Toni. God help the child / Toni Morrison. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 178 p. ; 22 cm "This is a Borzoi book." 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." African Americans Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. lcc bk 85570 85570 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 3 0 PS 3563 M878g 2015 00000117435 2018-10-25 00:00:00 2018-10-25 bk