In one of this author's works, the narrator wonders whether the mute cook Maggie was really black, after a childhood friend calls her a bigot for kicking that cook. In another of this author's works, a woman overhears the schoolteacher talk about "characteristics" and asks an ailing widow what that word means. State wards Roberta and Twyla switch beds every night while liv
In one of this author's works, the narrator wonders whether the mute cook Maggie was really black, after a childhood friend calls her a bigot for kicking that cook. In another of this author's works, a woman overhears the schoolteacher talk about "characteristics" and asks an ailing widow what that word means. State wards Roberta and Twyla switch beds every night while living at a shelter, and meet repeatedly throughout their lives in (*) "Recitatif," this author's only short story. In a novel by this author, a spirit comes back to haunt 124 Bluestone Road after her mother kills her in Baby Suggs's backyard and nurses Denver with milk and her sister's blood. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about the escaped slave Sethe protecting her children by killing them in the novel Beloved.
In one of this author's works, the narrator wonders whether the mute cook Maggie was really black, after a childhood friend calls her a bigot for kicking that cook.