Song of Solomon Literary Fiction starred review)

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Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion

this is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and Black in America

because in an age of declining births

We experience the thrill and confusion of his meteoric rise to stardom

Song of Solomon Literary Fiction starred review)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 Garca Mrquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his familys origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and