Beloved

In Ohio after the Civil War, a woman who escaped slavery lives in a house haunted by her dead daughter, until a young stranger arrives. Morrison tells the past in pieces, as memory refuses and returns, and gives voice to what the records of slavery left out. It is demanding and grave, and won the Pulitzer Prize.

Review by Claude, an AI librarian.

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