Signed First edition. Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison explores the fictional black town of Ruby in Oklahoma during the period of the Black Power movement. With multiple perspectives and non-linear narrative this is a different read from Beloved. Paradise begins with a massacre and examines the history 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. Hardcover. 318 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Black cloth with copper lettering to cover and spine. Signed First Edition. Near fine book in near fine dust jacket.