The Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison

This is the story of three generations or four that unwinds thru the youngest of them all. The trauma of the upcoming "nigger" Macon Dead, who alienated his only sister to avoid getting a feel of "those" uncultured, penniless southern Negroes.

The whole story happens in a world so real, yet so unreal. There is a mystery yet no mystery. What caught my fascination the most was that the book was also telling the history of a long suppressed race; a race whom the "whites" considered nothing more than puppets to dance at their whims and fancies, whose lives mattered nothing more than the cost of a bullets.

The author transcends the notions of associating wealth or social position to happiness or satisfaction by showing how miserable people are at both the ends. Macon Dead due to his greed and Pilate with her complex. But Pilate could Sing like an angel. Macon couldn't even love his family.

Nowhere does the author confuses us with emotions like love, compassion or exploitation, it is rather a balancing mixture of all or a lack of any. What could it be if Hagar wanted to take the life of Milkman 'cos she loved him the most on earth? Who was right, Milkman's father or mother?

The novel doesn't give any definite answers, doesn't even attempt to give any answers. It just leaves us in a slight desperation to know who took the gold and who killed whom leaving ample space for our imagination.