God Help the Child

At the heart of this novel: a woman named Bride, whose stunning black skin was one of her best features but also the source of pain and rejection. Bride's mother couldn't give her the love she needed because of her own history and upbringing. That's why Bride lied about Booker's brother, and it ruined the life of an innocent young girl. Those lies were like ripples that kept growing, affecting other people ... Rain, a white woman who found in Bride the only person she could talk to—about how she was abused by her prostitute mother ... Booker, mourning his brother since childhood.