"Blues man. Black and bluesman. Blacktherefore blue man." (T. Morrison, Jazz)
As part of the Princeton Public Library's Looking at Jazz series, the topic of yesterday's Contemporary Fiction book discussion was Toni Morrison's Jazz.
Yesterday’s discussion is one of the top reasons why I love being a librarian. There were fourteen of us packed into the second floor conference room discussing this incredible piece of literature. Excerpts were read; questions were raised; and I think it may be safe to say that we all left that room a bit more informed than we were before we entered.
One of our participants highly recommended Andrea Levy’s Small Island, which is the 2004 Whitbread Prize winner. Here’s the description from Novelist (one of our great readers’ resources), “At the end of World War II the Joseph family arrives in London from Jamaica and Queenie, their white landlady, befriends them, until her racist husband, Bernard, arrives home from the front.”
If you haven’t read Jazz, please do. And, if you’d like to discuss it, email me or post a comment. Let’s all be part of the discussion.