Paradise

“‘Paradise is structured around eight chapters, each bearing a woman’s name. Each adding a different point of view to the narrative. It’s set in Ruby, a fictitious black town pounded by proud, racially pure men who emerged from the fight against slavery only to find there was yet another hierarchy – this time based on gradations of skin colour – to keep them down. Yet the myth of Ruby’s own racial genealogy, its piety and self-righteousness is fragile, and the women who skirt the town’s boundaries, preferring to take refuge in their own company threaten to blow it apart’ Fiona Morrow, Time Out”