Literary Fiction

Beloved

by A.S. Byatt

Sethe escaped slavery at Sweet Home, but the past will not release her. Her Cincinnati home is haunted by the ghost of her infant daughter, whose tombstone reads only "Beloved." When a mysterious young woman arrives, memory and trauma erupt into the present. Morrison's towering, lyrical reckoning with history and motherhood.

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