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Beloved

Toni Morrison

362 pages

About this book

Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

Themes
Dark & BroodingHeartbreakingHeartfelt & EmotionalQuietly DevastatingStrange & UnsettlingThe weight of memoryTrauma's haunting presenceMotherhood under slavery
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