Beloved
- 321 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistantly haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl.
Beloved Trilogy Series
This literary saga delves into the depths of the human spirit, exploring complex themes of heritage, trauma, and the enduring power of the soul. Through evocative language and raw emotional resonance, the narratives uncover the legacies of the past and their profound impact on the present. The stories offer a powerful exploration of the strength found in relationships, the potency of storytelling, and the persistent search for freedom and redemption.
Recommended Reading Order
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Jazz
- 229 pages
- 9 hours of reading
"The deep bluesy sadness of this novel wails out of the pages?as expressively as a saxophone," writes Digby Diehl of Toni Morrison's 1993 novel. Set in 1926, at the height of the Harlem renaissance, it follows the lives of the Joe and Violet Vace, who have moved from the South to escape the hardships of segregation. They find a city throbbing with the music that represents both artistic freedom and moral decline. Jazz is story of passion, jealousy, murder and redemption, of sex and spirituality, slavery, and liberation, country and city. It is a novel about rapture and anguish of being male and female and, above all, human. Like the music of its title, it is a dazzling lyric play on elemental themes, as soaring and daring as a Charlie Parker solo, as heartbreaking as the blues.
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Paradise
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
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