The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate. “A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.” - Los Angeles Times In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present. Microhistories - Get down in the weeds with these intriguing titles!.2021 Washington State Book Award Winners and Finalists.Check it out-great reads without the wait!.Legacy Washington Audio Collection - Listen NOW!.Modern Scholar Audiobooks - NO WAITING!.Escape into History: Historical fiction.SciFi Old & New, Contemporary & Classic.Books about Pandemics, Epidemics, and Plagues.Resources for Dealing with Grief and Dying.Books to Battle Quarantine Sleep Problems.Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List.
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From the town’s ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of. 360), in defense of 'the one all-black town worth the pain,' assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. Black Lives Matter - Books for Young People In Paradiseher first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for LiteratureToni Morrison gives us a bravura performance.
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