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๐ Bookโญ 4.5
Beloved
by Toni Morrison ยท 1987
324 pages๐ถ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธLiterary, Historical, Horror
A formerly enslaved woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead daughter. The prose is poetry. The horror is American history. Morrison won the Pulitzer for this and it wasn't enough.
โ ๏ธ slaveryโ ๏ธ violenceโ ๏ธ infanticide



