Description

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this hypnotic novel transforms history into a tale as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was created a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she's still not free. She's too many memories of Sweet Home, the farm where so many ugly things occurred. And Sethe’s new house is haunted by the ghost of her child, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with just one phrase: Precious.