{"product_id":"paradise-9780804169882","title":"Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed Nobel Prize winner\u003c\/b\u003e challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present--\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003ei\u003c\/b\u003en prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThey shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.\" \u003c\/i\u003eSo begins Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eParadise\u003c\/i\u003e, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, 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. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A fascinating story, wonderfully detailed. . . . The town is the stage for a profound and provocative debate.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eToni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1970) to \u003ci\u003eGod Help the Child\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593664893202,"sku":"9780804169882","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cba53b35-2e37-4596-8fa6-7b55cfd855dd.jpg?v=1732119774","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paradise-9780804169882","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}