God Help the Child

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. Best Read God Help the Child [ Author ] Toni Morrison [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Read this in one breath Really lovely novel about how a young woman made a desperate choice to be loved by her mother, how that choice would shape her life, and how she was able to overcome a mistake to become her own woman I am especially marveling at the novel ...When 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...Everybody bow down, Toni Morrison still reigns In this short novel, we meet Bride A young woman who, as a child, testified in a court case which led to the imprisonment of an alleged child abuser Twenty years later, Bride tries to make peace with the woman whom she sent to prison I ll stop there and allow you to read the rest of the novel.Morrison imbues this novel with her renowned mastery of prose which allows the reader to sweep through this novel in only a sitting or two This novel is a Everybody bow down, Toni Morrison still reigns In this short novel, we meet Bride A young woman who, as a child, testified in a court case which led to the imprisonment of an alleged child abuser Twenty years later, Bride tries to make peace with the woman whom she sent to prison I ll stop there and allow you to read the rest of the novel.Morrison imbues this novel with her renowned mastery of prose which allows the reader to sweep through this...Pride 17 12 2016 3.5 stars No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity Toni Morrison, God Help The ChildIt took me a while to write this review, mainly because I was trying to find the right words I ve read most of Morrison s books There was something about it that did not feel very much like her other books That s not to say an author has to stick to one writing style but there were some parts of t...This novel is really not goodThe reviews have been studiously polite but have been gesturing to the deficits in the book, which are considerable I say this not to discredit Toni Morrison because I love her work But the elements of this novel are explored with so muchnuance and terrible beauty elsewhere in her oeuvre cruelty, sexual abuse, color consciousness, and the terrible vulnerability of children The Bluest Eye and the inhuman force of fire, the irresistible allure of a strong This novel is really not goodThe reviews have been studiously polite but have been gesturing to the deficits in the book, which are considerable I say this ...Literary fiction vs popular fiction4.5 Absolutely amazing, Morrison can put a story together as very few can Although only a short novel, so much is said, so much emotional territory is covered When Sweetness, a light skinned black gives birth to a blue black baby, she is appalled as is her husband who quickly leaves the family Treating her daughter, Lulu Ann roughly, she makes excuses for herself by thinking she is teaching her child how rough the world would treat her by the color of her skin Calling herself Bride, Lulu Ann 4.5 Absolutely amazing, Morrison can put a story together as very few can Although only a short novel, so much is said, so much emotional territory is covered When Sweetness, a light skinned black gives birth to a blue black baby, she is appalled as is her husband who quickly leaves the family Treating her daughter, Lulu Ann roughly, she makes excuses for herself by thinking she is teaching her child how rough the world would treat her by the color of her skin Calling herself Bride, Lulu Ann becomes a beauty and successful in business, but not so in love.The story shows how treatment in the past follows a person into the future, the feelings...No lonesome wandering child with a fishing pole passed by and glanced at the adults in the dusty gray car But if one had, he or she might have noticed the pronounced smiles of the couple, how dreamy their eyes were, but would not care a bit what caused that shine of happiness A child New life Immune to evil or illness, protected from kidnap, beatings, rape, racism, insult, hurt, self loathing, abandonment Error free All goodness Minus wrath So they believe The children in Toni Morris No lonesome wandering child with a fishing pole passed by and glanced at the adults in the dusty gray car But if one had, he or she might have noticed the pronounced smiles of the couple, how dreamy their eyes were, but would not care a bit what caused that shine of happiness A child New life Immune to evil or illness, protected from kidnap, beatings, rape, ...

• English
• 26 February 2018
Toni Morrison
• Hardcover
• 178 pages
• 0307594173
• Toni Morrison
• God Help the Child