Beloved
Morrison's novel explores the haunting legacy of slavery through a mother haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed to save from slavery. Through trauma, memory, love, and the supernatural, it examines the psychological scars of slavery and the struggle for freedom. The work is a profound meditation on history's grip on the present.
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