num_pages: 309
description: Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity.
language: English
title: Tar Baby
titlecomplete: Tar Baby
characters: Valerian Street
genres: Fiction, American, African American Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Race, African American
ratings_count: 20899
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Vintage Books USA