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Beloved
There is no comfortable distance from this book. Morrison will not let you look away. That is exactly the point.
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124 Was Spiteful
Toni Morrison's 1987 novel opens in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1873 where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house tormented by the ghost of her baby girl who died with the name Beloved carved on her headstone. When a man named Paul D arrives from the old plantation and then a mysterious young woman appears calling herself Beloved, Sethe's unconfronted past forces its way into the present. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. The novel is considered a cornerstone of American literature.


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Reading Beloved
3 Haunted
3 Tense
4 Layered
5 Disturbing
5 Harrowing
4 Cathartic

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Definitions belonged to the definers, not the defined.


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Morrison based the novel on the true story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman who killed her daughter in 1856 rather than allow her to be returned to slavery. Morrison found the story in a newspaper archive while editing a collection.
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When Morrison won the Nobel Prize in 1993 she became the first Black American woman to receive the honour. Her acceptance speech is considered one of the most profound meditations on language and storytelling ever delivered.


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