

Tar Baby
Toni Morrison
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there’s Son.
Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between black and white people, masters and servants, and men and women.
An unforgettable and transformative novel that explores race and gender with scorching insight from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.
**Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction**
'Toni Morrison was a quintessential, unabashedly American writer. Like her fellow giant, Walt Whitman, her work was, above all, audacious. She seized the landscape with a flourish and wove it, unwove it and put it back together' Bonnie Greer, Guardian
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Reviews for Tar Baby
New York Times
Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her
Guardian
Deeply perceptive...Returns risk and mischief to the contemporary American novel
New York Times Book Review
Toni Morrison's writing is a train that knows where it's going, fierce and fast-moving in narrative, lyrically showy in description
Sunday Times
Toni Morrison has made herself into the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche, transforming individuals into forces, idiosyncrasy into inevitability
New York Times