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Book Review of Beloved

Beloved
Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 6


This book recently was rated the best book of American Fiction written in the past 25 years. It is not light reading, and I honestly found some of the parts hard to follow. Not for the squeemish reader either-there are themes of rape and violence that are truthful, yet horrid.
On the other side, it's a provocotive look at life for slaves after the emancipation and the way that grief and pain manifest themselves for one mother.