Tracking the ever-elusive Great American Novel

[jd]

I can't speak for Beloved but I read Jazz and The Bluest Eye and
neither impressed me.  Also, I saw an interview where Morrison was
spouting about white people, how we tipped busses with black kids in
it, etc. and it kind of bugged me that this powerful African American
voice was generalizing white people in such a manner.  I certainly
never tipped a bus and think whoever would or did is an asshat, and
yet in her statements she lumped me as a white person in with those
people.  It's like saying straight people kill homosexuals.  OK, some
straight people do, but I as a straight person think it's horrendous
to do so, and I think it's pathetic that we in a "free" society are
making it illegal for them to marry, etc. and I think it's a shame
when people who have faced hate and generalization react by making
generalizations of their own.