Beloved Khaled discovering a whole world she

discovering a whole world she never knew existed

far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts

Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks

Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness

Beloved Khaled discovering a whole world sheStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose