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A review by porgyreads
Paradise by Toni Morrison
5.0
God-ni Morrison don’t make that face :(
On a real: there were sentences in this that took my fucking breath away. Not only is it exquisite on a molecular level, the narrative is a sprawling portrait of an ancestrally rich town whose inhabitants are spoiled by their history of exclusion, their inability to adapt, and a collective dedication to a utopian ideal that will never and can never be - but somehow almost was.
I’m always of two minds about Toni Morrison because I want to take my time working through her backlist - there are only so many books and only one first read of each but I also have finished three works of hers now and the moment I closed each book I thought I have to reread this asap to figure out how the Fuck she did that???
On a real: there were sentences in this that took my fucking breath away. Not only is it exquisite on a molecular level, the narrative is a sprawling portrait of an ancestrally rich town whose inhabitants are spoiled by their history of exclusion, their inability to adapt, and a collective dedication to a utopian ideal that will never and can never be - but somehow almost was.
I’m always of two minds about Toni Morrison because I want to take my time working through her backlist - there are only so many books and only one first read of each but I also have finished three works of hers now and the moment I closed each book I thought I have to reread this asap to figure out how the Fuck she did that???