God help the child
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Physical Desc
178 pages
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
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1 available
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction
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2 available
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2 available
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
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1 available
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1 available
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction | FIC | On Shelf | |
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction | FIC | On Shelf | |
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction | FIC | On Shelf | |
Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction | FIC | On Shelf | |
Los Osos Library - Adult Fiction | FIC PBK | Checked Out | April 30, 2024 |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a 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 until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish . . . Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother . . . Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother . . . and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.".
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