Vintage Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book</b><br><br><b>One of the Best Books of the Year: <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i> <i>Kansas City Star</i></b><br><br>At the center: a young 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. There is Booker the man Bride loves and loses to anger. Rain the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally Brides mother herself Sweetness who takes a lifetime to come to understand that what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.<br>        A fiery and provocative novel <i>God Help the Child</i>the first book by Toni Morrison to be set in our current momentweaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape and misshape the life of the adult.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><p><strong>An Amazon Best Book of April 2015:</strong> What you do to children matters& This foreboding phrase informs the latest masterful novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. The story?? at its heart?? is about the devastating consequences of a light-skinned mother who rejects her dark-skinned child. Bride?? the daughter?? goes on to become a successful cosmetics mogul?? but that success doesn??t transla