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Book Review of Paradise (Beloved, Bk 3)

Paradise (Beloved, Bk 3)
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from back cover:
"Paradise opens with a horrifying scen of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and murderous rage."