num_pages: 264
description: Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: 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: Classics, American, Race, African American, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, African American Literature
ratings_count: 20893
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Signet