God Help the Child

The new novel from the author ofBeloved

The past has a hold like no other...

Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should.

Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother. Booker cannot fathom Brides depths, with his own love-lorn past bending him out of shape. Can they find a way through the damage wrought on their blameless childhood souls, to light and happiness, free from pain?

Toni Morrisons fierce and provocative new novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations.

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, includingThe Bluest Eye, Beloved(made into a major film),ParadiseandLove.She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.

The potent new novel from the Nobel Laureate