![]() I read it over so many times I can recite it from memory: The opening line blew me away and will make my list for all-time favorite first sentences. ![]() In some ways, it met those expectations, it being an impressive work of literature and storytelling that transports and illuminates. Milkman has been on my list for a while as I’ve made my way through the 2019 Women’s Prize shortlist. I was too buzzy to read, thinking of teacher, of her manner of saying there were sunsets every day, that we weren’t meant to be coffined and buried whilst all the time still living, that nothing of the dark was so enormous that never could we surmount it, that always there were new chapters, that we must let go of the old, open ourselves to symbolism, to the most unexpected of interpretations, that we must too, uncover what we’ve kept hidden, what we think we might have lost. ![]()
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