First Impressions

Song of Solomon so far has been surreal. I feel like the author wants to shock the reader at a realistic level, all the characters and the events that have happened so far are completely possible but incredibly unlikely. It takes certain kind of community for these things to happen, one that doesn't punish severely, one that gives a lot of freedom and one that is too shattered to care anymore.

The African-American population described int his book is one that had been put down for so long they have lost care for the line that divides acceptable behavior and unacceptable behavior. Those are people that have seen so much that they cannot be easily surprised anymore. It takes a mother breast-feeding her eight(or so)-year-old child or a man jumping off a building with silky blue wings strapped on to really earn attention.