Beloved

Beloved is Toni Morrison’s crowning achievement, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film. The story of Sethe, an escaped slave living in Ohio who is haunted by the ghost of her baby daughter — a child she killed rather than see returned to slavery — is at once an intimate portrait of grief, survival, and love, and a profound meditation on the wounds slavery inflicted on an entire people. Morrison’s prose is stunning: raw, biblical, lyrical. A book that demands and deserves multiple readings.