The story of Love revolves around William Cosey and all the woman revolving around him.

William Cosey is an African-American businessman who used to own many houses, money, two boats, and a hotel resort. At the opening of the novel William Cosey has been dead for a while and only his child-wife Heed and granddaughter Christine remain. These two women are the same age and had been best friends, but their friendship turned into a malicious rivalry after William Cosey bought his way into marrying Heed.

The men and women in the story are: Heed, Christine, L, Celestial, Romen, Junior, Sandler, and Vida. Each one of these characters are drawn precisely and with depth. In addition, every character gives a different yet corresponding view of William Cosey, with loose ends of their stories to be tied together expertly at the end of the novel.

Social and racial issues play a very important part in the lives of the characters and in the construction of the plot. The memories of L start and end the novel, and also come in between as if framing the incidences, actions, and emotions.

The novel mostly consists of characters' recall with their stories going back and forth in time, and if the reader is not careful, he may mix what is happening at present with what has happened in the past. The language and the storytelling, however, are superb and so poetic that it felt as if I was reading poetry.

Yet, it is not only the poetic language, but the construction and depth of the novel that impressed me.
Different kinds of love are exposed, even the disturbing ones like child molestation, rape, passion, and sex. Although the novel revolves around a man, it is mostly about unappreciated, downtrodden women who betray each other, thus betraying themselves.

the story.

read another one by Toni Morrison, so I got Sula, her latest work.

Toni Morrison born in 1931 is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor.
Her novels are: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Jazz, Beloved,Tar Baby, Paradise, A Mercy, and the latest, Sula.

I feel it is a great literary work.

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