Song of Solomon

Name: Song of Solomon
Author: Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison · 1977

A man discovers that his family carries a secret: a literal ability to fly. Morrison's richest novel in terms of myth, music, and the Black American oral tradition becomes a meditation on inheritance, masculinity, and the memory of slavery. Won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. Morrison at her most mythic.

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on the pace
“dragged along at a snail’s pace”
three stars · a book blog
on the density
“There is just too much going on for a reader to absorb.”
a book blog
on Milkman’s character
“Milkman’s just a hollow voodoo doll that things are happening to”
four stars · a book blog
on the many characters
“it slowed down and it was difficult to follow the many characters.”
five stars · a book blog