Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery this spellbinding New York Times bestseller
transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe its
protagonist was born a slave and escaped to Ohio but eighteen years later she is still not
free. She 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. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as
taut as a rope Beloved is a towering achievement. You can't go wrong by reading or re-reading
the collected works of Toni Morrison. Beloved Song of Solomon The Bluest Eye Sula
everything else - they're transcendent all of them. You'll be glad you read them.--Barack
Obama
