Rewarding !

　　　The story is at first terrifying. Unlike its title, Paradise begins by describing how a group of men conduct a mass slaughtering of a group of women. The women had been living in an abandoned mansion/convent near the all black town, Ruby, in rural Oklahoma. Then the story backtracks to show why the tragedy happened.
　　　Ruby was founded by ex-slaves who traveled from Louisiana after the Civil War. They originally founded the town, Haven, however, the next generation moved away from it and founded a new town, Ruby. Since these people were oppressed by whites and even turned away by the light colored of their own people, their community had become solid and didn’t like outside people and the outside world. To protect their community, they despised change. It seemed like they segregated themselves to create their own paradise.
　　　But the change came from the outside world in the wake of the citizens’ movement for black people. Inwardly, they also changed themselves. The