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allidoiswinnick 's review for:
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
This is an important piece of literature and it is completely understandable and deserved that Toni Morrison is considered one of the greats of our time.
The story follows several runway slaves and how they struggle to carry the weight of their trauma as free men and women. Morrison writes with the extremity necessary to capture the true horrors of this time.
With that being said, Morrison's stream of consciousness writing style and shift between narratives from sentence-to-sentence left me utterly confused this entire novel. I had no idea what was happening/who saying or feeling what, which didn't allow me to connect to the characters or plot in the way I was hoping to. The prose is beautiful and almost lyrical, but the structure was just not my style.
The story follows several runway slaves and how they struggle to carry the weight of their trauma as free men and women. Morrison writes with the extremity necessary to capture the true horrors of this time.
With that being said, Morrison's stream of consciousness writing style and shift between narratives from sentence-to-sentence left me utterly confused this entire novel. I had no idea what was happening/who saying or feeling what, which didn't allow me to connect to the characters or plot in the way I was hoping to. The prose is beautiful and almost lyrical, but the structure was just not my style.