Title: Great start but does not sustain
Review: Begins as a bildungsroman, and a fine one with beautiful writing. I become less interested when the point of view shifts. An interesting bridge between the Modernist tradition and the African-American style of story-telling (montage of multi-generational, tangentally-related voices and plots) that Morrison embodies. The spiritual crisis that is so important to Baldwin does not capture me.
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