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Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Puck
"Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name?"

Beloved is a haunted novel. The pain and suffering of slavery can, as we discover, haunt people in many heartbreaking ways, even ones who haven’t directly experienced it. Morrison is brave enough to ask, not if we can let go of that pain (because that is impossible), but how we will give that pain a place in our life.

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Megan
This hauntingly gorgeous gothic book is about Sethe, who escaped enslavement and is living with her family in a haunted house. The timeline rotates between post-Civil War and pre-Civil War time periods.

Sethe lives with her mother-in-law and her teenage daughter in Ohio, having escaped north while she was pregnant with her forth child. Her sons had been living with them, but have run away from home. Her husband, who worked to buy his mother her freedom, and set her up in Ohio, is missing. They ha
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