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| Title | : | God Help the Child |
| Author | : | Toni Morrison |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 178 pages |
| Published | : | April 21st 2015 by Knopf (first published December 2014) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. African American. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Novels |
Toni Morrison
Hardcover | Pages: 178 pages Rating: 3.74 | 22187 Users | 3120 Reviews
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a 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 until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish ... Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother ... Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother ... and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget."
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| Original Title: | God Help the Child |
| ISBN: | 0307594173 (ISBN13: 9780307594174) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 22187 Users | 3120 ReviewsArticle Of Books God Help the Child
How is Toni Morrison still this good?This short novel starts with a brief chapter by a mother whose daughter is born with exceptionally dark skin. The mother, Sweetness, says very little, but you can see that she thinks this is a curse her daughter must bear. That attitude is the beginning of a woman's journey and a story about child abuse of all kinds. Physical, sexual, emotional, it's all here in one way or another. None of it is described in detail, the story picks up when Sweetness'sWhen I took a grad school class on Toni Morrison, I started a (pretentious, I know) tradition of 9-word reviews of her work. Look, I was young and she had written 9 books at the time. Anyway, I'll do the same here:Everybody is fucked up. There's usually a good reason.Then I'll cheat and add that Toni Morrison is a national treasure and I'm so thankful to have her books in my life.
I liked the first half of the book and then it became... a bit strange. I found the characters not very believable, the way they thought and talked felt phony and unreal. I guessed how the story would unfold very early on, except for the stuff that happens in the last 5 pages (not wanting to spoiler right now), which I found eye-roll-worthy. This book left me pretty disappointed because it started out very strong, but at the end I didn't know what to do with it or what the book wanted to tell
Writing this review has shifted my rated from 3-4 stars, to 5. What an eclectic book, what an interesting writer! This is my first foray into Toni Morrison books. I listened to the audio, narrated by the author. She has a dreamy voice, I was initially feeling a little mesmerised and sleepy, but decided to enjoy the story telling, by the creator, it is real. Her words pack a punch at every turn, every statement is strong and full bodied. The process of writing this story must have been
update:I love that so many other reviewers share my sentiments that it feels eerily wrong rating a Toni Morrison novel less than 4 stars or not singing her praises. Many people also mentioned that, we'll give her a break she is 84 years old still writing a novel and living her dream. True. I guess I didn't take that into consideration. I was wondering why her later novels have been short and underdeveloped. the woman is 8 decades old plus some change so the fact that I was expecting Beloved or
Giving a Toni Morrison book only 3 stars seems ridiculous in light of some of the 4 and 5 star ratings I've doled out. What I'm saying is, Morrison can write the pants off of most writers. Whether you like her stuff/style or not, it must be admitted that the woman can string together one word after another in a very pleasing manner.Having said that, God Help the Child did not enthrall me as others of hers have. I'm not 100% sure why. There could be a number reasons, here are some of them:There
I was a devoted Toni Morrison reader in high school, so I was really looking forward to reading God Help the Child. It pains me though to write this review, not because I didn't like this book but because my feelings are so mixed on it. There was something very appealing about it and I had moments where I was thinking "This is why I love Morrison. Why haven't I read her in a while?" But there were plenty of other moments where I was confused about why certain characters, storylines and scenes
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