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I listened to the audiobook of this and I have to say that having Toni Morrison read to me each day made something shift inside me. It was kind of like having a little guardian angel in my ear. Many have complained about her reading style. She doesn't read like most professional readers do. Her voice ebbs and flows, often ignoring punctuation. But to me, her voice moved like a river, speaking to something deep inside me, a sweet rumble, a purr. I couldn't get enough of it.

I hadn't read this book before and I love what it has to say about friendship. After it I just want to read Toni Morrison forever.

Update: the audio is still amazing. But this time through I realized that this isn't really a book about friendship at all. It's about the ways women get by either inside of or out of society. This time I could just feel deep in my soul that this is a book written by a divorced woman who does not need a man but who remembers what it felt like before she realized that and oh it spoke to me.