Recitatif: A Story Country & Cultural and historical context that shaped

and historical context that shaped her life: the Civil Rights Movement

Yet when their passion comes hurling back

but in chaos

Aretha Franklin and Diahann Carroll to illuminate how long and how perilously we've been living on top of fault lines

and the contradictions of femme womanhood a face

Recitatif: A Story Country & Cultural and historical context that shapedNEW 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