Volume 28, Number 7 · April 30, 1981
Every Which Way
By Darryl Pinckney
Tar Baby
by Toni Morrison
Knopf, 306 pp., $11.95
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931, and Lorain was the setting of her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1971). Black girls could and did grow up there, envying the patent leather shoes, Kelly green knee socks, velvet coats, and rabbit fur muffs of popular 'high yellow' girls with sloe green eyes and long hair. There were other discoveries to be made in that town besides the casual cruelty of light-skinned class mates: a father could rape his daughter.
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