Toni Morrison Classics, 8-Book Set

Collection of 8 books by Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that her world will be different. Sula Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Beloved Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Song of Solomon Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. Tar Baby Jadine Childs is a black fashion model. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. Their story charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women. Jazz In the winter of 1926, Joe Trace shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us a narrative assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life. Love In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them may be even stronger. Paradise The patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own.