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Join the BPL Book Club to celebrate Toni Morrison's birthday, with a discussion of her powerful novel, Song of Solomon!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.
More about Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, editor, and professor born in Lorain, Ohio,o on February 18, 1931. Her novels are known for their epic themes, exquisite language, and richly detailed African American characters who are central to their narratives. Among her best-known novels are The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, Love, and A Mercy. Morrison earned a plethora of book-world accolades and honorary degrees, also receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
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