Song of Solomon (Picador Books)

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  African Americans,  African American families,  Family,  Afro-American families,  Michigan,  Afro-Americans,  Fiction in English,  Domestic fiction,  National Book Critics Circle Award Winner,  award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1977,  award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction,  Modern Literature,  open_syllabus_project,  Families,  Family life,  Fictional Works Publication Type,  African Continental Ancestry Group,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  1000blackgirlbooks,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Michigan, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2019-08-25,  New York Times bestseller,  Blacks,  Familles noires américaines,  Romans, nouvelles,  Noirs américains,  General,  English fiction,  African american families--fiction,  African americans--fiction,  Ps3563.o8749 s6 2004

Places: Michigan