Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Morrison explores the fictional black town of Ruby in Oklahoma in the 1970’s. With multiple perspectives and non-linear narrative this is a very different read from Beloved. Paradise begins with a massacre and traces the history between the people of Ruby and the Convent, a nearby women's commune. An under-appreciated novel of Morrison’s, perhaps for its provocative envisioning of black and feminist utopias. We love it. It’s haunting and witchy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. 318 pages. 24 x 17 x 4 cm. First edition. Hardback, book in near fine condition, dust jacket in very good condition.