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There is a special hell for black people who only give Toni Morrison three stars. Please don't send me there.
Paradise is the story of black God-fearing utopia (nah, not an oxymoron!). Ruby, the town where the story is set, prides itself on its "absence of the unsaved, the unworthy and the strange." The townspeople are preoccupied with pleasing the Lord and fighting the "threat of white immigrants". Something has to happen, so not far off lurk ex-pat heathens who (not needing a man, OR God!!) put ...more
Paradise is the story of black God-fearing utopia (nah, not an oxymoron!). Ruby, the town where the story is set, prides itself on its "absence of the unsaved, the unworthy and the strange." The townspeople are preoccupied with pleasing the Lord and fighting the "threat of white immigrants". Something has to happen, so not far off lurk ex-pat heathens who (not needing a man, OR God!!) put ...more
Mar 24, 2008
Joscelyn Mathis
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Obscurenoun
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