Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Nobel Prize laureate 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 Caribbe…
The story follows eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a Black girl who prays for her eyes to turn blue, believing that doing so will make her as beautiful and adored as the blonde, blue-eyed children she sees around her. Set in the fall of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden fail to bloom, Pecola's life takes a tragic and heartbreaking turn.