Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Sethe keeps house outside Cincinnati with her daughter Denver, in a home the neighbors avoid and something angry inhabits. A man from the plantation she escaped arrives to stay, and soon after a young woman appears at the house calling herself Beloved. Slavery's unbearable past made flesh; a mother's love and its terrible cost.

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• influenced by ↑ The Sound and the Fury
  William Faulkner · 1929 CE · Novel

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