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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
I regret some of my earlier assumptions and judgments about authors and books. I'm grateful, though, that I can recognize my immaturity and revisit titles when I realize I was too hasty. It can make for emotional epiphanies (that may sound hyperbolic, but there are some titles I was so opposed to at first, wondering at their pull with others, but through some life events, I decided to revisit them and was struck at how my opinion had drastically changed and I now understood and appreciated them in ways I couldn't before, and that experience is one I hold dear).
Such is how I approached Toni Morrison. I read a couple of her titles in college courses, and I felt like I was missing something. That's been a lifetime ago, and I've been wanting to revisit her with new eyes. Song of Solomon was upheld by a friend as one of her favorites, so when I learned Literacy Partners was re-airing an event where numerous authors read aloud the book, I registered and dedicated a weekend to sequestering myself to listen and follow along in my own volume as I knit and let Morrison's words wash over me.
It's humbling and beautiful to have to acknowledge my prideful declarations from before. Song of Solomon was a captivating family saga and Morrison is adept at crafting a complex story. She brought to life the stories of Macon Dead, Guitar, Hagar, Milkman, and others. There is longing, regret, perspective, and love.
I hope to revisit previous titles of Morrison's, those I'd read before, to experience them anew.
Such is how I approached Toni Morrison. I read a couple of her titles in college courses, and I felt like I was missing something. That's been a lifetime ago, and I've been wanting to revisit her with new eyes. Song of Solomon was upheld by a friend as one of her favorites, so when I learned Literacy Partners was re-airing an event where numerous authors read aloud the book, I registered and dedicated a weekend to sequestering myself to listen and follow along in my own volume as I knit and let Morrison's words wash over me.
It's humbling and beautiful to have to acknowledge my prideful declarations from before. Song of Solomon was a captivating family saga and Morrison is adept at crafting a complex story. She brought to life the stories of Macon Dead, Guitar, Hagar, Milkman, and others. There is longing, regret, perspective, and love.
I hope to revisit previous titles of Morrison's, those I'd read before, to experience them anew.