While I’m reading, a sentence will grab me and force me to stop. I pay tribute to other authors by sharing their Damn Fine Sentences with you. Then I recount a memory the words bring up for me. It’s about how books connect with your life.
*****
“The anger unjelled and flooded through her.”
———Toni Morrison
———Song of Solomon
At Chicago’s American Writers Museum, among the 100 author bookmarks offered to us word-loving souvenir hunters, only three black writers were represented, none of whom was Toni Morrison.
*****
“The anger unjelled and flooded through her.”
———Toni Morrison
———Song of Solomon
At Chicago’s American Writers Museum, among the 100 author bookmarks offered to us word-loving souvenir hunters, only three black writers were represented, none of whom was Toni Morrison.
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