Seth, the protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has so many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Seth's home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Belovedis a towering achievement.
