Beloved

In Beloved, Toni Morrison combines the reality of slavery, escape, and dealing with the trauma it brings with it, with magical realism. Her writing is rich with metaphors and vivid imagery that helps with the heavy and dark content. She portrays the truth in a way that is brutally honest, confronting you with people who do unspeakable things and witnessing such things. It's about how such terrible experiences can shape and change your life. How the memory of them will never fade and how they will continue to affect your life and decisions. It's about how terrible things can happen to you and how you can do terrible things as a result. It's a powerful reminder of the lasting and damaging effects of traumatic events and the strength it takes to confront them.

Personally, the awful events and descriptions in this novel were a bit too much for me, making it rather difficult for me to finish this book.