Toni Morrison

In the troubled years following the American Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved.

An angry veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. But Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his life.