01480cam a2200289 i 4500 217210285 TxAuBib 20150531120000.0 141024s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014034972 9780307594174 HRD 0307594173 HRD TxAuBib rda Morrison, Toni. God help the child / Toni Morrison. First edition. Random House Inc, 2015. 178 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young 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. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.". 20150531. African Americans Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Domestic fiction.