Tar Baby: A Novel
Jul 2007 · Sold by Vintage
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A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
“Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The Washington Post
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
“Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The Washington Post
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
“Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The Washington Post
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a ...
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JOhiyoM
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July 6, 2015
I didn't want it to end but I'm glad it wasn't a "happily ever after" ending. It just was. No closure. No resolutions. Just life and uncertainty.
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Mary Peake
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November 3, 2025
Morrison is the ONE! Since her demise, I have yet to read any author who can touch her imagery and written beauty yet! RIP
Matthew Cunningham-Cook
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July 11, 2025
Amazing romance/novel free of clichés. Toni Morrison is a star writer or perhaps a witch..
About the author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
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