Song of Solomon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An official Oprah Winfrey's "The Books That Help Me Through" selection - With this brilliantly imagined novel, the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez.

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.

Reason: Banned, Sexual content, bestiality, and racism

Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/08/2004
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.28w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781400033423

Target Age Group: 18+

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 18432 / Song of Solomon

About the Author
Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.