#685 About Love and Money or Love’s Lore and Money’s Myth- J. California Cooper
This is a life story told by Bessy. She was a poor black woman orphaned at age eleven. Her father killed her mother and went to prison. She was self reliant and always looked to the future and better days. She used every opportunity to get a leg up to the next one.
“This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.”
When she got old enough she came to be a housemaid at a rich black doctor’s house. He became her friend and the wife became jealous. They divorced and the doctor wanted to marry Bessy. Seeing it as an opportunity she became the woman of he house, but only long enough to get her own house and her own life. She got most of what she wanted, and on her own terms.
It’s a nice life story, and empowering at times. I found humor in the use of “singing opera” as a euphemism for the sounds made while having good sex.
“I went home to sing the blues and left her there singing opera.”
Notable Passage: “In life you can go as silly as you want to, but don’t go crazy.”
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