A review by onceuponatime
Jazz by Toni Morrison

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The last 50 pages or so of this book really make it, and they're the ones that finally got me interested in the characters. I had to whip up a family/connection tree to make sure I was getting everything right at some point. I know Morrison wanted the book to have a strong presence of music (and it does!), but maybe not as much as I expected. It is a neat comparion to "Beloved", though, as the main characters really are fishes out of water in the big city and their history immediately continues onto their family's whom just got freed during the grandma True Belle's time..