This is something I personally believe the world has failed to do. But this epigraph does inadvertently point to a very central theme of the book, that of child abuse, of the vulnerability, innocence, and helplessness basically of a child, and how important it is for every adult, to protect a child, to protect them from emotional and physical abuse, to protect them, their life, and letting them grow into their own, without hindering their mental growth, yet never leaving their side. “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not Luke 18:16 “Įpigraphs have usually been my takeaway for many books, I have genuinely picked up a lot of books and kept them on my shelf (and never picked them up again!) because the epigraph meant a lot to me. – Please watch this Ted Talk by Kimberle Crenshaw, who actually devised the term, and get a deeper view of what really is meant by intersectionality, and how it applies to everyone, especially women of varied class, race, and other identities that push them to the periphery.) This has been my first book for 2019, I was trying to read an African-American narrative, and having already loved, The Bluest Eye and Sula, ( Reviews of which I’d post on the blog as soon as I can, and which I actually studied for a Term paper on intersectionality in black feminism. Morrison’s eleventh book, God Help the Child, published by Penguin Random House in 2015.
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