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God Help the ChildA fiery and provocative novel, God Help the Child weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and
A fiery and provocative novel, God Help the Child weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget." A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City StarBinding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/26/2016
ISBN: 9780307740922
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 02/28/2016 pg. 28
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★★★★★ 5
african history
Format: Paperback
great african history that should be taught in american schools
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Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2021
★★★★★ 5
Ancient Africa Kingdom
Format: Kindle
The information provided gives a great overview on the past, I would recommend this book for the young people to know the true history!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Knowing my history.
Format: Paperback
Learning things about Africa I was not aware of
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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021
★★★★★ 5
Learning history
Format: Paperback
Exactly what I was looking for
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Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2021
★★★★★ 2
Great idea, great cover, poor execution
Format: Paperback
This is a great idea that was badly done. On the production side, insufficient glue in the binding causes pages to fall out when you turn them - dozens of pages, not just one or two. This is surprising given the good quality of the paper and cover.
As for content, the writing is very poor & shallow. I'm reminded of a high school essay by poor student unfamiliar with history who is looking looking up the subject matter on Wikipedia as they go but leaving out all the good stuff. For example, we get a king list for Kush spread over several pages, but virtually no actual history -- despite the fact that all of Egypt was there to quote from for at least the enemy's side of the story, and Assyrian sources could have been cited as well. I don't gain much new information from the 50th repetition of "nobody knows this" and "nobody knows that." A real historian can impost structure on the unknowns by showing the archaeology or citing history & folklore & epigraphs. This could have been presented in simple high school language, outlining the alternative possibilities from the little we do know, and explaining how we know what little we know. Photographs of actual ruins and art would help. Unfortunately the subject matter is really not touched.
Too bad. This could have been a very good project.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2021