"In an effort to hide his southern, working class roots, Macon Dead, an upper-class Northern black businessman tries to insulate his family from the danger and despair of the rank and file blacks with whom he shares the neighborhood. The plan leads his son, "Milkman"—a name he earned after his mother nursed him well past the proper age—onto a path exactly opposite the one his father had hoped. Milkman is driven into the arms of a violent, lower-class woman, into a clandestine circle of blacks who repay white violence in kind and into an awareness that he can fulfill his own potential by understanding the mistakes of his ancestors as they relate to his own." (Amazon.com Books) Essays= student essay Memory and the Quest for Family History in One Hundred Years of Solitude and                                               Song of Solomon - Susana Vega-González "Every Goodbye Ain't Gone": The Semiotics of Death, Mourning, and                                               Closural Practice in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon - Cedric Gael Bryant, MELUS "Anaconda love": Parental Enmeshment in Toni Morrison's 'Song of Solomon' - Gary Storhoff, Style Dead Letter Office: Conspiracy, Trauma, and Song of Solomon's Posthumous Communication - Michael Rothberg The South in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Initiation, Healing, and Home - Catherine Carr "1 + 1 = 3" and Other Dilemmas: Reading Vertigo in Invisible Man,                                  My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Song of Solomon - Valorie D. Thomas Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction - Katy Ryan, African American Review The Fathers May Soar: Folklore and Blues in "Song of Solomon" - Naomi Van Tol Book Reviews Reviews of Song of Solomon - Oprah.com To Ride the Air to Africa, by John Leonard - NY Times Miscellaneous Oprah's Book Club Song of Solomon page - Oprah.com Song of Solomon Topics - Dr. Andrade to Toni Morrison Site copyright ©1996-2006 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Created by Anniina Jokinen on May 21, 1997. Last updated on July 30, 2006. Toni, Morrison, Paradise, interview, interviews, Toni Morrison, books, links, Beloved, Jazz, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize, author, African, American, Woman, Women, Writers, African American, African-American, Authors, writer, author, novelist, novel, novels, book, books, writing, Africa, Black, History, Slavery, contemporary, literature, Love, Grace, Nobel, Prize, Black Authors, Black History, Black History Month, African-American, African American, Africa, Essays, Literature, Books, fiction, literary