At the center of “God Help the Child” is the “midnight black” beauty, Bride, as dark and shining as the eponymous Beloved. Morrison’s 11th novel is another unflinching, gorgeously written story about the wounds of the black community: lost brothers and smothering mothers colorism and child abuse disavowed guilt and withheld love. This Nobel laureate’s 45-year career has yielded many a classic to reprise. A great artist will sometimes use the twilight of her career to riff in this way on her repertoire new work becomes an opportunity to revisit old standards. Longtime readers of Morrison will no doubt hear other echoes in “God Help the Child” - a rose tattoo, a fatal fire, an accident in a rainstorm.
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