Winter Book Club: Beloved by Toni Morrison (Part 1 of 3)

Set in nineteenth-century Cincinnati during the Reconstruction Era (with flashbacks to the Era of Slavery), this Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel employs elements of folklore and the supernatural to embody the psychological traumas carried by former slaves. The story centers on a household of people who share connections either by blood or by a shared former plantation home. A haunting forces the main characters to come to terms with their repressed emotional wounds, either discovering new strength or succumbing to unhealed traumas.

Dr. Kristin Distel, our discussion leader, is the assistant director of academic coaching at Ohio University.