Inscribed by the author to the title page
The Song of Solomon brought Morrison to national attention, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. The novel draws on stories and myths that Morrison had been told as a child about “black people, black slaves, who came to the United States, and under certain circumstances […] would fly back to Africa”, adapting these stories to create a narrative about liberation from the “cultural prison” of societal constructs in place of a “geographical escape back to Africa”.
