A review by emsun
Beloved by Toni Morrison

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Lyrical. Beautifully and effortlessly weaves together so many metaphors and symbols (had to pull up the Cliff’s Notes!). Could spend a long time dissecting and analyzing, but the immediate impact is also large. Unsettling moods, disturbing imagery, and entrancing stories intertwine to make readers both recognize and feel the reverberations of slavery’s deep horrors, and the violence and trauma that can’t simply be left behind. So many layers to this novel, exquisitely written.