Song of Solomon

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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.

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I’ve reread sections many times submitted by ccrose on July 21, 2019, 11:30pm Song of Solomon was a book included in a modern American Lit class 40 years ago. It swept me away then, the rhythm and richness of. Morrison’s sentences; it was like reading a majestic piece of music substituting words for notes. It was a meticulously laid out history of a family, the Deads,and their community and how a community keeps alive stories and gossip from generations back.
So many amazing settings: the old dog trot house of his aunt, Pilate, a car junkyard with peacocks, going out to search for more of the carefully hidden past. The story behind his nickname that pestered him the rest of his life: milkman. Spied by a neighbor sprawled across his mother’s loving lap, a big little boy, nursing.its a coming to terms with his family’s past, hellbent on doing more than just surviving.

My favorite TM novel submitted by crp on August 6, 2019, 6:54pm Toni Morrison has done an amazing job here. One of the images or ideas that is a common thread in this book that has stayed with me is the idea of flying back home across the Middle Passage. I love this book.

Definitely my new favorite Toni Morrison novel to date. submitted by Jinxyluis on August 21, 2019, 11:41am I love how Morrison weaves together stories, no detail is superfluous but yet so many are unexpected and contextualize the main narrative with a broader picture of the world. This novel covers many themes but especially powerfully muses on where we come from and foundational stories. And it was so suspenseful!

Powerful book submitted by ravsara on July 6, 2020, 8:56am The phrase, "Everyone wants the life of a black man" haunted me in the wake of George Floyd's murder. This book will live in my memory for a long time and I highly recommend it. Toni Morrison's writing, imagination and voice demands our attention.