text: A character in this novel wonders whether her boyfriend Ryk wants to marry her or a black girl; that character has a conversation about how stars actually throb rather than twinkle with another lover.
full_question: A character in this novel wonders whether her boyfriend Ryk wants to marry her or a black girl; that character has a conversation about how stars actually throb rather than twinkle with another lover. That lover joins a group of wild horsemen on the Isle des Chevaliers at the end of this novel after being piloted there by Thérèse. In this novel's first chapter, Margaret's hopes that her son Michael will come home for Christmas are dismissed by her husband Valerian. One of the main characters of this novel is a poor sailor who washes up at the estate of the Streets, the family who sponsors the modeling career of its other main character. Son and Jadine are the protagonists of this novel, which is named for an object that is punched and kicked when it doesn't respond to a character who later tricks the object's creator into throwing him into a brier patch. For 10 points, name this Toni Morrison novel that shares its name with a sticky object used by Br'er Fox to entrap Br'er Rabbit.
first_sentence: A character in this novel wonders whether her boyfriend Ryk wants to marry her or a black girl; that character has a conversation about how stars actually throb rather than twinkle with another lover.
raw_answer: Tar Baby