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Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987, Alfred A. Knopf) 4 stars

Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American …

masterpiece

5 stars

I don’t think I really grasped all of this when I read it as a 18yo when it was first published. The long histories of trauma and the grip of the past. It’s just a tremendous book and even now I feel like I am barely grasping its glimmers.