Song of Solomon: A Novel

Toni Morrison

Jul 2007 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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

Ratings and reviews

It's such a powerful book that I could not put down. So good. This has been a banned book for so long. I can sort of understand why. But this one of the best books I have ever read. Plus this is Barack Obama's favorite book.

Toni Morrison is phenomenal. I loved this book. It speaks to so many things which shape our existence. Ms. Morrison is an extremely skilled artist.

Totally enjoyed the book. I recommend this book to anyone seeking a weekend read.

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, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.