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Gifted & Talented

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The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones-of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people.The place is a Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through the rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years-the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife-who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden burst of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. And there is a visitor among them-a beautiful young black woman, Jadine, who is not only the servants' dazzling niece, but the protegee and friend of the Streets themselves; Jadine, who has been educated at the Sorbonne at Valerian's expense and is home now a respite from her Paris world of fashion, film, and art.Through a season of untroubled ease, the lives of these five move with a ritualized grace until, one night, a ragged, starving, black American street man breaks into the house. And, in a single moment, with Valerian's perverse decision not to call for help but instead to invite the man to sit with them and eat, everythingchanges. Valerian moves toward a larger abdication. Margaret's delicate and enduring deception is shattered. The butler and his wife are forced into acknowledging their illusions. And Jadine, who is at first repelled by the intruder, finds herself moving inexorably toward him-he calls himself Son; he is a kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood; uneducated, violent, contemptuous of her privilege.As Jadine and Son come together in the loving collision they have welcomed and feared, the novel moves outward-to the Florida backwater town Son was raised in, fled from, yet cherishes; to HER sleek New York; then back to the island people and their protective

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