“Clearly he was just using me since I had money and a crotch,” she grumbles. We encounter Bride, Sweetness’s daughter, all grown up and in the process of being dumped by some no-good mister who delivers a parting diss (“You not the woman I want”) on his way out the door. Sweetness’s chapter reads like an evil oracle the reader braces for dreadful things.īut the second chapter is so different in tone, and so astoundingly vapid, that it might belong to another book. There will also be struggle-damaged souls desperate to transcend terrible pasts-and there will be child abuse, both physical and emotional, before the novel ends. There will be racism, specifically, that of light-skinned blacks toward dark-skinned and there will be heartache, specifically, that of a daughter spurned and belittled by her own mother. Right away, the Morrisonian themes are there.
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