| Description |
178 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
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.". |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780307594174 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0307594173 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9780307740922 (softcover : acid-free paper) |
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0307740927 (softcover : acid-free paper) |
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