Recitatif: A Story Country & Cultural but in chaos

but in chaos

As the novel unfolds

Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends

with how families harm themselves

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Recitatif: A Story Country & Cultural but in chaosNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. With an introduction by Zadie Smith "A puzzle of a story, then a game. When [Morrison] called Recitatif an 'experiment' she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader." Zadie Smith, award winning, best selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story the only short story Morrison ever