Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Not quite sure what to write here.

It’s not possible to understand the experience of slavery.

But much as Arendt does for people living under Totalitarianism, Morrison takes a subject that is typically described physically - the inhumanity of torture and bondage, the number enslaved and killed - and pushes the reader to re-imagine that subject. Morrison focused instead on the psychological and emotional dimensions. She shrinks tragedy typically ...read more

Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Haunting story

Took me a little bit of time to get into it but then I got hooked and devoured it. Loved the multigenerational perspective and seeing the world from each character's eyes.

A ride that I thoroughly enjoy each time I pick it up.

In both content and style, this book is challenging. So many knots to untangle. So much love, greed, abandonment, evil, hope. Five slaves escaped from Kentucky, some through the underground railroad, others through death, one through insanity, each story heavy with shame and a "dirty" that won't wash away. A black mother with so many haunting memories the ghost becomes real, a ghost whose thirst for love, to be loved, cannot be quenched. Give me ...read more