Tar Baby

Author: Toni Morrison

An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.,,Into a white millionaire’s Caribbean mansion comes Jadine, a sophisticated graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian – a black American now living in Paris and Rome. Then there’s Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contem….Read More

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