Milikman's search for his identity (and later heritage) and his struggle for gaining acceptance in society, and more importantly, with his father. The book is really too complicated to summarize.




"Toni Morrison has created a fanciful world here-a universe where ghosts exist, where a dead man's bones are kept in the living room, where a young woman dies of hearbreak, and a grown man wills himself to fly....She has an impeccable sense of emotional detail. She's the most sensible lyrical writer around today." -Philadelphia Inquirer

The symbolism is interesting, with lots of hidden references to the Bible and to African-American slave culture.

I actually didn't like the book at all the first time I read it. I had to read it for school, and I thought it was horrible. Then I had to analyze it, and I came to like it a lot!

Burn it, at first, but that's against my principles, so I thought I'd merely let it sit around until my English made us get it out again. But now I'd like to read it again sometime.

Odd. I don't know how to describe it otherwise.

Toni Morrison was born in Loraine, Ohio, as Chloe Anthony Wofford. She has also written: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise. Song of Solomon won the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Beloved. She is also the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, and currently a professor at Princeton University.

It's a great learning experience, especially in the modern, black American slave culture. (I know that sounds odd, but trust me.)

You have to be very open minded when reading this book. It's a great culture clash for all of us WASPs, and many of the ideas may and will take time for you to get used to. However, it really is a good book.

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