'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine Evaristo
Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years
old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls'
shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only
to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a
protest. The two women are seemingly at opposite ends of every
problem but, despite their conflict, the deep bond their shared
experience has forged between them is undeniable. Recitatif keeps
Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. We know
that one is white and one is black, but which is which? And who is
right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the
orphanage? This story is a masterful exploration of what keeps us
together and what keeps us apart, of race and the relationships
that shape our lives. Now with a new introduction by Zadie Smith,
it is as radically compelling and relevant today as it was when
first written nearly forty years ago. 'Toni Morrison is the
greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever
known' Tayari Jones 'Her work is an act of giving her community
back to itself, so that people - African-Americans but the diaspora
as well - can see and witness themselves' Diana Evans
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