num_pages: 264
description: Tar Baby is the story of the love affair between a beautiful black model molded by white culture and a black man who represents everything she both fears and desires. It sweeps from a white millionaire's luxurious Caribbean estate to the shimmering sophistication of Manhattan to the bedrock realities of the American southland. This is not only a novel of hypnotic, lyrical beauty, it is a revelation of all the shades of feeling and the full spectrum of choices facing women and men in a black-and-white World.
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: 20897
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Signet