Paradise (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Toni Morrison
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Plot: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 1976
- Setting: The fictional town of Ruby, Oklahoma
- Principal Characters: Deacon (Deek) Morgan, Steward Morgan, Consolata, Mavis, Grace (GiGi), Seneca, Pallas, Patricia
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Sin or Original sin, God, Spiritual life or spirituality, Good and evil, Survivalism, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: Ruby, OK
The Novel
Paradise, which focuses on the love of God, is Morrison’s third novel in a trilogy of books dealing with various kinds of love. As the book opens, a violent, bloody massacre takes place at the Convent, a run-down refuge for broken women located near the small town of Ruby, Oklahoma.
The inhabitants of Ruby are descendants of a group of dark-skinned African Americans who migrated west in the 1870’s from Mississippi and Louisiana. Hoping to be accepted in Fairly, a town of lighter-skinned blacks, they were turned away. This event becomes memorialized...
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