This highly fictional novel by Toni Morrison was a wonderful read. The main character being "Milkman" who learns the hard lesson that "truth" is difficult or impossible to obtain, simply because of the conflicting stories he recieves by his parents, concerning his mother's fidelity and his grandfather's ,"too close" relationship with his daughter. Milkman has lived a sheltered life evident only by rumors of him being breastfed way into his early adolescent years by his mother. He also gains a reputation of being a"mamas boy" in the tiny village where he lives. As time passes in the novel we are introduced to many of the folks in milkmans life, my favorite being his aunt Pilate, who is almost considered Divine, a female Christ-inspite of her name. She was born without a avel and so she is somewhat of a mystical character in the novel. We also meet Hagar who falls obssessively in love with Milkman and being unable to cope with his rejection,(obviously he rejects her, shes his cousin; although that doesnt stop him from sleeping with her) she attempts to kill him about 6 times. My fav quote being, something along the lines of...." she could not cope with the fact that he could not love her so she settled for his fear". Not exactly in those words but its the best i can do given that i dont have the book anymore and im writing from memory.
As the story unfolds there is alot of high drama and great suspense, the imagery is beautiful, so much so that if Miss Morrison describes the heat you literally feel it too, if she describes a scene, perhaps a dark forest , where his friend Guitar hunts him down to shoot him, then its like youre at that place hearing Milkmans heavy breathing as he runs through the dark. Again i will say that this novel is awesomely written and the characters are so unique that their personalities are almost believable. I wont spoil this book any further, you must read it for yourself, youre gonna love it!
Bye! Kisses....
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