Loved itsong of solomon is one of those books i have forgotten how good this book really is this book is the book that i would put in the time capsule as a representation of african americans the book is just so great
Song of Solomon (1634)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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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Loved itone of my favorite novels of all time so definitely we are keeping it