Love

Toni Morrison · 2003 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Two women, the widow and the granddaughter of the dead hotelier Bill Cosey, share his decaying house in a seaside town, bound together by a hatred that began in childhood. The history of Cosey's Black resort and of the man all the women loved surfaces in fragments; Morrison's eighth novel.

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