A Taste for MoreMoney is security. Always. Margo Dupree has lived by that rule since childhood, when her father's death plunged her and her mother into poverty. Marriage brought only disillusionment and struggle. But it also gave Margo the determination to migrate north in search of a better life for herself and her young daughter, Lana. The north, however, isn't the panacea she expected, and Margo finds herself contending with the all too familiar obstacles of

I left a few victims of my own

Usain Bolt

In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta

But if he's not careful

Xavier Wright did not expect to run into his high school girlfriend Violet--the girl he once thought he'd marry--on a birthday trip to Vegas

and letters to sisters of all walks of life

Cotton Blend

she knows it won't be the last

and inequality

Another thing that can't be avoided

and un-flinching honesty

They couldn't be more different