Download or read book Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon written by Jan Furman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.