num_pages: 310
description: Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. 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.
language: English
title: Tar Baby
titlecomplete: Tar Baby
characters: Valerian Street
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Novels, African American Literature, Literature, Race, African American, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 20889
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Vintage