Jazz

Toni Morrison, 1992 Date Read: 4/17/23

I don't think I'm smart enough for Toni Morrison. I really didn't understand Beloved (which I read before The List) and I didn't entirely understand this. But this is, at least, most comprehensible.

Essentially, people are fucked up and generational trauma exists. Especially for slaves and decendents of slaves. Like, I truly cannot imagine the horrors people who have been enslaved, who have been pushed down and subjugated, have endured. No wonder they do fucked up things.

Morrison is an incredible writer and I read this entire novel in one day. I'm going to look up some stuff about it now that I've read it.

By the way, GoodReads says this is the sequel to Beloved. None of the same characters but a lot of the same themes.

Length: 229 pages in Alfred Knopf hardback

Rereadable: maybe one day, if I get smarter.

Classic: yes. I think a lot of white people should read this stuff and learn something.