Recitatif: A Story

Read for Massachusetts Center for the Books book challenge: January - A book less than 100 pages in length

Twyla and Roberta, who shared a room for four months in an orphanage, are shaped by the society they live in. We see them meet several times throughout their lives. We are never told their races. My belief is Morrison wanted the reader to see in the end their races don't matter - we are all trapped by the racism/power system of our society.