Tar Baby KINDLE MOBI by Toni Morrison H.A.

''Tar Baby'' is, of course, a black novel, a novel deeply perceptive of the black's desire to create a mythology of his own to replace the stereotypes and myths the white man has constructed for him. It is also a book about a woman's anger at - and her denial of - her need for an impossible man, and in this regard it is a woman's novel too. Her character Jadine bravely concludes: ''A grown woman did not need safety or its dreams. She was the safety she longed for.'' Yet Toni Morrison's greatest accomplishment is that she has raised her novel above the social realism that too many black novels and women's novels are trapped in. She has succeeded in writing about race and women symbolically.
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is also 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.
Morrison manages however, to create a majical and mythological place and set of characters, and the dialogue between her characters is both real and unreal; what they say means so much more than what the actual words can allude to, and are a type of prose poetry not often explored in the spoken word.