The Rindge Classic Book Group will read and discuss “Song of Solomon” by Toni Morrison for their September meeting at the Ingalls Memorial Library.
2016 winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal for her contribution to literature, Morrison is also a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize recipient. Written in 1977, “Song of Solomon” is one of her earliest books and the first by a black American woman writer to be chosen for the prestigious Book of the Month Club.
The novel follows the life of a black man named Milkman and traces his coming of age as an African American searching for a better understanding of his heritage. Set in an unspecified Michigan town the story ironically follows Milkman’s life in a reversal of black migration because Milkman heads to the warm nurturing South from the frozen alienating North.
Copies are available to borrow at the library.
For more information, call the library at 899-3303 or email librarian Diane Gardenour at diane@ingallslibrary.com.