Book guide
Beloved
A haunted house forces a formerly enslaved mother to face the past she tried to bury.
GenresLiteraryHistorical
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About Beloved
After the Civil War, Sethe lives in Cincinnati with the ghost of trauma, slavery and a dead child pressing into her home. Morrison’s Pulitzer-winning novel transforms the history of slavery into an intimate, supernatural story of memory, motherhood and survival.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- slavery
- racism
- child death
- racial slurs
- murder
- violence
- rape
- death
- sexual assault
- grief
- sexual violence
- physical abuse
- torture
