NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An official Oprah Winfrey’s The Books That Help Me Through selection * With this brilliantly imagined novel, the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a
rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying
to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman
from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces
an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of
a fully realized Black world.