Song of Solomon, Toni MorrisonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An official Oprah Winfreys The Books That Help Me Through selection The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming of age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. 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

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