01137cam a2200289 4500 95803762 TxAuBib 20010828120000.0 010828s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97080913 9780679433743 0679433740 (OCoLC)38117575 ICvR ICvR MoS PPi DLC TxAuBib Morrison, Toni. Paradise / Toni Morrison. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1998. 318 p. ; 25 cm. A group of black women in Oklahoma flee abuse at the hands of their men, moving into a former convent where they form a support group, an initiative which arouses the ire of the town's men. A look at a black community, with its tensions of tradition versus modernity, patriarchy versus matriarchy and fidelity versus promiscuity. 20100323. Communal living Fiction. Afro-Americans Fiction. Oklahoma Fiction. Historical fiction. TXHSB