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Beloved is a gripping novel of slavery and the underground railroad. It is the story of Sethe who escaped the bondage of Sweet Home fleeing to Cincinnati, Ohio with her children to the home of her mother-in-law Baby Suggs. This heartbreaking tale is Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning epic saga. It becomes apparent that there are many forms of bondage as we learn of a gravestone simply marked Beloved. "Counting on the stillness of her own soul, she had forgotten the other one: the soul of her baby girl. Who would have thought that a little old baby could harbor so much rage?" This was a hard book to read on many levels; one that I had to reread many portions because I felt that I wasn't grasping it.

Morrison writes, "In trying to make the slave experience intimate, I hoped the sense of things being both under control and out of control would be persuasive throughout; that the order and quietude of everyday life would be violently disrupted by the chaos of the needy dead; that the herculean effort to forget would be threatened by memory desperate to stay alive. To render enslavement as a personal experience, language must get out of the way."