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This is the story of Macon Dead Jr known as Milkman, the son of a property developer in the town of Mercy, Michigan, set mostly in the 1960s, but with tendrils stretching back into Macon's past and the lives of his parents and grandparents. While his mother's position is established by her being the only child of the first black doctor in the town, his father and aunt Pilate have a more shadowy background with roots in Virginia. Macon is pulled in many directions by different family members and ...more
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