"We've all been on promising dates that left us feeling worse in the long run, suffered from breakups we might have mishandled, or stayed in relationships which should have worked but didn't. So what are we missing? Don't panic! Toni Tone is here to give the big sister advice we all need: discovering what we want from a connection, flourishing through heartbreak, and learning the vital importan…
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examina…
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his familyâ…
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent. Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes.…
Ingatan kepada tanah kelahiran, kepada ibu yang melahirkan, kemudian kepada puisi yang saya lahirkan terus memenuhi kepala saya. Energi kesedihan itu memacu saya untuk memulai kembali pengembaraan dalam penyusunan puisi. Lalu terbersitlah keinginan untuk membagi kumpulan puisi ini menjadi dua bagian. Bagian pertama saya beri subjudul "Tamasya", puisi-puisi tentang tempat-tempat yang pernah s…
in the Story, Fred was really Scared of The White blob. then he found what the white blob that was his friend Tom.
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted…
Story About Mike and five mice adventure