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Beloved


A Literary Fiction Novel

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Decades after its publication in 1987, Toni Morrison's fifth novel (and her most famous) still inspires and shocks. It's both the book that helped Morrison win the Nobel Prize and one of the most banned novels in American schools. A survey by The New York Times ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006. It really is that good.

Inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, Beloved follows the story of Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, and her daughter, Denver, as they deal with a haunting that reveals the trauma of their pasts and the scars of slavery upon both the body and psyche.

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.

This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. 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.

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