About this title: Toni Morrison's eighth novel centers on the Cosey family. Bill Cosey rose from poverty to become the millionaire owner of a prosperous resort. His son, Billy Boy, and Billy's daughter, Christine, have opposing views about the place. As years go by, Cosey's wealthy widow, Heed, struggles to keep the upper hand, and Billy's widow, May, becomes ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375409448ISBN:0375409440
Description: Good in Good jacket. BOMC/Book Club. Used hardcover with dust jacket. Both are in good condition with light wear to dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780375409448ISBN:0375409440
Description: Fine. First Edition. Minor book cover scuffing, clean inside GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
"Slow in terms of action. Deep character development. Crazy folks though. Not sure if I liked any of them. Maybe Romen. Achingly beautiful prose. Found dialogue style annoying.
Genre: Realistic Fiction Setting: fading black south beach resort town Time Period: 1990's
Plot Summary: 2 girls are best friends. When girls are 11 rich girl's (Christine) grandfather (Cosey) takes poor friend (Heed the Night) as wife. Rich girl and her mother (May) turn on poor girl. Long after Cosey is dead 2 girls share his house. Heed hires Junior. Smart. Bad family. Jailed. Fused toes. Junior sleeps with yard boy (Romen) who saved gang rape victim. Friends reconcile and reveal secrets as Heed lies dying. L killed Cosey. Celestial was his mistress.
What I learned: 1. We blame ourselves for so many things that aren't our fault. Shame closes us away. A trick to forgiving ourselves is to treat ourselves as we would our own child. (Look at a picture of yourself at 5, 10 years old. Would you ever be as harsh with her as you are with yourself?) 2. As a mother "don't confuse dependence with reverence." My place is "secondary to a child's chosen love.""
"It's about how getting the right amount of love makes you ok and not having it makes you broken. This isn't news, but I was still amazed to think about all that can ripple out from one evil. Toni Morrison is a very gifted writer (I know I'm late to the party on that one, but it's still true)."
"A story about relationships between friends, family, and lovers. Wrote very nice and was a quick read. The story bounces around between mostly 3 women and that is sometimes hard to keep straight, but a good read anyway. Two girls were friends but then love(?) got in the way. Due to missunderstandings and jealousies their friendship turns to hate that lasts the whole rest of their lives and affects all their desisions as adults. A young girl comes into the picture and changes everything."
"A book that reads like a whisper. Each chapter sifts past these women's stories, circling around the one man who controls all their love--even in death. Dialogue speaks like stream-of-consciousness, bleeding from one mind to another that suggests a conversation of hearts, not mere voices. And when the book concludes, the italic voice of the narrator laps like waves on a shoreline--as if the story endures stronger than any bond of Love."
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