Recitatif

토니 모리슨의 유일한 단편 소설입니다. 두 소녀 Twyla와 Roberta의 우정에 대한 이야기로 일단 읽고 난 뒤에는 누구보다 나 자신에 대해 더 많은 깨달음을 얻게 될지도 모를 이야기입니다.

My mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick. That’s why we were taken to St. Bonny’s. People want to put their arms around you when you tell them you were in a shelter, but it really wasn’t bad. No big long room with one hundred beds like Bellevue. There were four to a room, and when Roberta and me came, there was a shortage of state kids, so we were the only ones assigned to 406 and could go from bed to bed if we wanted to. And we wanted to, too. We changed beds every night and for the whole four months we were there we never picked one out as our own permanent bed.