description: Captures the dreams, memories, conflicts, and complex interior lives of the citizens of a small, all-Black town as four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near the town during the 1970s, in a novel that blends past, present, and future
language: English
title: Paradise
titlecomplete: Paradise
genres: Fiction, Literature, Classics, Novels, Feminism, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Race, African American
ratings_count: 26370
series: Beloved Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Ohioana Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Demco Media