"Recitatif" by Toni Morrison

This was a change of pace from the usually love story we read which was nice. The short story told more of a bond formed between two completely different girls (economically speaking). This story showed the great relationships that racially different people can achieve and how they can grow and then so tragically end because of the times. Too look deeper I would say the author perhaps had an experience like this perhaps and found inspiration in that, but I cannot be certain as the internet lies too often. Regardless, it was refreshing to not read a love story.