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Beloved

By Toni Morrison

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After escaping slavery, Sethe builds a life in Ohio with her daughter Denver. When a young woman calling herself Beloved arrives, the household is forced to confront a loss that has shaped it for years. Toni Morrison moves between past and present to ask what freedom can mean for a family still living with slavery’s consequences.

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Edition and subjects

ISBN-13
9781400033416
Publisher
Vintage
Edition date
2004-06-08
First published
1987
African American Literary Legends Black History & Heritage Memory Motherhood Slavery Reconstruction Adults

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