Finished: 30/10/24 This was my "spooky book" for the month of October, however it was less spooky than it was disturbing, but in a purposeful way. From what I know, a lot of Toni Morrison's work is about the black experience during slavery and the Jim Crow period in American history. It's not meant to be light reading, it's meant to stick with you and hold the image of suffering close to your face. I really like Toni Morrison's focus on women as the protagonists and how no punches are pulled when talking about how women feel and experience life. For this summary I'm not going to follow the course of the book. In Beloved , two stories unfold at once, one being the present, and the other being the past that explains the present; it's a really cool literary choice, but a bit hard while relaying a summary. I think I will reiterate Beloved in chronological order because the present of Sethe's story is hard to understand without the past being clear....
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