A review by johndiconsiglio
Love by Toni Morrison

4.0

Morrison’s novels often have the spirit of a ghost story. In Love (2003), among her finer late works, the phantom is the gone-but-not-forgotten Bill Cosey (unfortunate name?), once the owner of a swanky Florida resort for Black people with a little cash & a lot of appetites. The hotel’s crumbling & the patriarch’s left behind a sinful past. A string of feuding women—wives, granddaughters, lovers—are cleaving each other’s throats in his wake. Morrison doing what she does best—riffing voices, years & passions. So fierce she shoulda called it Hate.