A review by valwwy
Recitatif by Toni Morrison

challenging informative reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

even after hearing Zadie Smith call out our tendency to need to know the race of someone as a baseline for how we view them, and even after i know that in the end it didn’t matter in the case of Twyla and Roberta, i still found myself logging each of their characteristics in my head, and trying to decipher the recitatif of their speech, in an effort to figure out their race.