Toni Morrison's Beloved is a difficult book to evaluate. The magical aspects didn't work for me, which undermined the entire project, and the text was stylistically erratic. By the latter I mean that there were large chunks of the book that flowed beautifully and meaningfully, only to be stopped by dense "writerly" passages that seemed to be nothing so much as showing off. It is doubtless a novel that would benefit from multiple readings; maybe I'll give it another go sometime.
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