S is for Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison.....Previewish Review

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Song of Solomon

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. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world........Kalahari.net

I really wanted to review this specific book for S but alas I could not finish it on time. However, of its 337 pages I am now on page 237, exactly a 100 pages to go. So having read two thrids of it I think I can give half a review, I hope you don't mind. Maybe giving half the feedback now and the rest later is not a bad thing because this is a very complex book for me.
If you asked me to unpack complex for Song of Solomon, I wouldn't be able to. It's no singular characteristic that makes it challenging and at the same time wonderful, beautiful and special . It's not the writing style, which by the way is complex, or the story line which is also complex, or the characters, who are complex, or the stories behind each one, which are very complex. 'Tis all off these coming together to form a very simple but thoroughly engaging narrative. I find myself frequently forgetting that this is a novel. It feels like I'm reading someone's life story, it's incredibly unpretentious. It doesn't try to woo you into reading it, the first few pages I had to read 4 times to understand what was happening and I almost threw the book the side to be honest, but boy am I glad to have my stubborn streak. I refuse to be defeated by something that doesn't "talk"....even if it does. I also suspect my struggle could be a result English being my fifth language, ergo, a borrowed language. {excuses, excuses(= }
This book is dark, not horror story/serial killer dark (even though there is a dose of that) or paranormal dark (even with the voodoo in the book) but a more frighteningly insidious dark . The type that if allowed fills the heart of the average man or woman. The kind that eats away at souls until the person is left only as a shadow of themselves. There are copious amounts of greed, selfish intentions, hate upon hate, wild chaotic minds (could be madness), deed deep hurts and immeasurable cruelty and hopelessness. In all that however, there are also reflections of the purest of love and evidence that man is always meant to be master of his own destiny.. The time period I suppose is also ripe a book filled with family skeletons and individual's dark attics _ its set from 1918 onwards.
Hardcover

Well I have to watch post length, this is theA-Z Blogfest after all. But I can assure you of this,Song of Solomon is a rich read and I am enjoying every moment. I will continue with the review after completion of the Fest. It deserves it.

Have a fabulous Saturday y'all.
Much love,