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Tar Baby

by Toni Morrison

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An affair shaped by divisions and loyalties

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An affair shaped by divisions and loyalties

Jadine Childs, a Black fashion model connected to a white patron and boyfriend, becomes involved with Son, a Black fugitive whose presence unsettles her. Their relationship moves across the Caribbean, Manhattan, and the American South, bringing questions of desire into contact with larger conflicts over race, class, service, and gender. Morrison frames the affair through intersecting lines of obligation and betrayal, giving the novel a scope that reaches beyond the couple to the social hierarchies around them.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in literary fiction centered on relationships and social divisions.
  • For readers seeking fiction that examines race, class, gender, and power across multiple settings.

Themes

Desire and identityRace and social hierarchyObligation and betrayalGender and power

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Book overview

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner

"Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison's story." --The Washington Post

Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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