Brief Encounters - Recitatif

This smart slippery tale... [is] highly relevant to our times... [Recitatif] serves as a challenge to contemporary novels that prefer to take refuge in racial orthodoxy than unsettle it, as Morrison so brilliantly does here

A uniquely interesting and enlightening reading experience.

The gravitas and unparalleled skill found in Morrison's best-known work is on full display in this compact powerhouse.

[A] stunning work . . . An illuminating introduction . . . The author's experiment pays off brilliantly, forcing the reader to consider racial stereotypes while also providing an indelible story.