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100 Best Books

Beloved by Toni Morrison

In Beloved, Toni Morrison portrays the horrors and lasting torment of slavery in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel centered on escaped slave, Sethe. Fiercely determined to move beyond her brutal past, Sethe vows to give her children freedom from a life of servitude — at any cost. She kills her 2-year-old daughter to keep her out of the grasp of slave catchers, only to be revisited by the restless spirit of the beloved child — first as a ghost, then in the flesh.

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