Juan C. Villegas

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Revisado: 01-20-22

Nice content but nothing new. at the end, the author does self-promoting of freelancing mentoring services.

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“O Sugarman done flyaway.”

Revisado: 04-22-21

She started singing, “Sugarman done gone / Sugarman cut across the sky / Sugarman gone home…”

An eerie but enigmatic chant serves as an appetizer of life marking events that will accompany Macon Dead from his birth to his transformation and how he learns the struggle of why everyone wants the life of a black man.

The Song of Solomon explores the life of Milkman, a fantastic story of a man who embarked towards self-discovery through complicated family events and anecdotes of an African American family in the XX Century. Carefully crafted and interweaved with Love, despair, betrayal, social justice, and mysticism that will envelop your senses and render you unable to stop reading. Morrison perfectly placed details transport you to experience every word and feeling that the hero of the story and every character he encounters can humanly and spiritually convey.

Living on Not Doctor Street, Milkman, the first colored baby born in the 1930s at Mercy Hospital in Michigan, is the son of Macon Dead II, a driven and successful landlord in the Southside. Milkman is also the grandson of the renowned Dr. Foster and Ruth Foster’s son, a mother who did everything to keep her son safe at a high cost. His two sisters Corinthians and Lena Dead, are two sophisticated teenagers who sacrifice along with their mother to care for Milkman, the rest of the Dead family, and a peculiar boy named Guitar Baines who befriends him.

Milkman, with the guidance of his dad Macon Dead II, will reluctantly learn the family business. Milkman learns life lessons and shocking truths with his friend Guitar, his aunt, Pilate Dead, a woman with no navel, his cousins Reba and Hagar about what is to be connected, loved, and hurt by others, as well as his realization that the consequences of his actions will hurt and heal, too. His curiosity and outbursts will lead him to disturbing family truths, and that his life path will grant his questions the answers lost in his family tragedies and his mistakes as well.

Nobel Prize Laureate Toni Morrison created an intriguing and almost otherworldly exploration of the Dead and Foster families and their descendants, personal growth, and the injustices that accompanied those families’ origins, gut-wrenching separation, and almost divine reencounters. She brings us face to face with what is important, what motivates us, what divides us, what entices us, what can damage us, and our private struggles and raw realities that life gives or takes from us.

You will find yourself so involved in this odyssey that reading it once won’t be enough satisfaction. With every sentence, every paragraph, and chapter read, Morrison, materializes a literary delight of complex sentiments, edgy, as well as difficult situations. The connections of events and characters both impeccable and shocking. The impulse of finding out our hero’s destination becomes almost non-existent as you devour each minute, each smell, each touch of each character’s journey guided with beautiful mysticism.

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