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The One All-Black Town Worth the Pain - Katrine Dalsgard "Passing on" Death: Stealing Life in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Sarah Appleton Aguiarįurrowing all the Brows: Interpretation and the Transcendent in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Philip Page 'This side of Paradise' : Toni Morrison Defends Herself - Anna MulrineĮden, Oklahoma: Trouble in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Brent Staples Paradise - Elizabeth Bartelme, Commonweal Paradise - Reggie Young, The Christian Century Paradise: Worthy Women, Unredeemable Men - Michiko Kakutani, NY Times Reading and insight in Toni Morrison's Paradise - African American Review The Salon Interview of Toni Morrison, Feb 1998 - Zia Jaffery — The Sleeve.Ĭonversation: Toni Morrison - Elizabeth Farnsworth for PBS

where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. In Paradise—her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature—Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Four damaged infants were born in one family.

A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year.