
Tar Baby
About this book
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects
LiteratureRace identityMarried peopleFictionAfro-AmericansInterpersonal relationsFugitives from justiceAfrican AmericansRetireesRace relationsFiction, family lifeAfrican americans, fictionCriminals, fictionCaribbean area, fictionFiction, generalMothers and sons, fictionCrime, fictionLarge type booksFiction, family life, generalRomance fictionRelations racialesRomans, nouvellesGeneralLove stories