Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

WINNER OF THE 1993 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 

An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection 

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. 

As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.

Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality, and revelling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs. -The New Yorker

Stunningly beautiful. . . . Full of magnificent people. . . . They are still haunting my house. I suspect they will be with me forever. - Anne Tyler, The Washington Post

If Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man went underground, Toni Morrison’s Milkman flies.- John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review