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Tar baby parent’s guide: what’s inside
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A note for parents
Tar Baby is an adult literary novel by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison that explores complex themes of race, class, identity, and power through the relationship between two Black characters. The book contains mature sexual content, emotional and psychological complexity, and sophisticated examination of racism and colonialism that require adult maturity to process. This is not a book for young readers despite its literary merit.
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From the publisher
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 Morriso... 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.
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- Literature
- Race identity
- Married people
- Fiction
- Afro-Americans
- Interpersonal relations
- Fugitives from justice
- African Americans
- Retirees
- Race relations
- Fiction, family life
- African americans, fiction
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