Paradise / Morrison, Toni

Opens with a horrifying scene of mob violence then chronicles its genesis in a small all-black town in rural Oklahoma.

Four young women living in a convent near Ruby, Oklahoma, are viciously attacked in 1976 after residents become convinced the women are the source of the problems that have been sweeping the exclusively African-American community.

Four young women living in a convent near Ruby, Oklahoma, are viciously attacked in 1976 after residents become convinced the women are the source of the problems that have been sweeping the exclusively African-American community.