DONATE: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

 Buy this book for a person locked up in Newark, NJ. Ten Dollar Books covers shipping and mails it right to them. -- This book is so good. You can pick up anything by Toni Morrison and know it’s good. Song of Solomon follows around Milkman, who is trying to find his way. He’s born into a family that has some money–his dad is a landlord. Quiet mom, two quiet sisters. All that would be pretty ordinary if it weren’t for his aunt who lived nearby who was witchy and magical and natural. He’s forbidden to be around her at first, but he clings to her and her house anyway. And that unravels everything over the years. His relationship with her granddaughter, his cousin, Hagar is so frustrating. And it’s frustrating to be getting the view from him too. Because when he writes that note to her ending things, you see his logic which sucks but you read on like ok fine. Then Hagar reacts and is crushed and you’re like okay yea actually that was pretty fucked up. And that’s basically Milkman’s intern