Beloved to reconcile conflicting impulses in

to reconcile conflicting impulses in his own nature—a need to serve the protecting deity of his Umuaro people

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colonialism and every despicable act humans are capable of inflicting

music and its relationship to Christianity in Bahamian society

Beloved to reconcile conflicting impulses inStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose