Macon Dead III grows up in a family full of secrets, and the search for his origins becomes a flight through Black American history.
About This Book
The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a foreword by the author and a new introduction by Tayari Jones.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “A rhapsodic work. . . . Intricate and inventive.” —The New YorkerMilkman 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.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want to be immersed in a world: mood and setting as important as plot. This is a book that asks something of you. Dense, layered, and best read slowly. It takes its time, and that's the point. Patience is rewarded. Plot-first readers may find the pace too slow and the ambiguity too deliberate.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something atmospheric and mysterious, and a read that's slow and deeply immersive.
What It Explores
Song of Solomon explores identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, family in all its complexity — inherited and chosen, and love in its most complicated forms.
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