Toni Morrison's 'God Help the Child': An Instant New York Times Best-Seller

On April 27, 2015, Farah Jasmine Griffin interviewed Morrison before a standing-room audience. Here, exclusively to ESSENCE, we present the full conversation between two powerful intellectuals—portions of which appeared on the tablet edition of the magazine.Many of ESSENCE’s readers love The Bluest Eye. As with that earlier novel, God Help the Child is, in part, a story about colorism, but not only that. However, this book is quite a departure.