Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel (which was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998), and it quickly joined the ranks of other must-read classic books of the 20th century.
The most popular of Toni Morrison’s phenomenal works, Beloved is an anguishing novel about a formerly enslaved woman named Sethe. It doesn’t shy away from heavy themes, like the pain of grief and the effects of intergenerational trauma. Sethe’s home is haunted by the poltergeist of her infant daughter, whose grave is marked with the word Beloved. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel (which was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998), and it quickly joined the ranks of other must-read classic books of the 20th century.