Fall Series: A Hundred Years of the Pulitzer Prize: Part Two

Let's explore some of the most lauded American books. The Pulitzer Prizes were established just after the First World War, and while our tastes have changed, and the prizes have evolved, do the prize winners stand the test of time? We will read one title from each decade of the 20th and early 21st centuries. This series will conclude in Fall 2024.

January's book is: 1988 Pulitzer Prize: Beloved by Toni Morrison

Sethe 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 to her and her family. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single world: Beloved.

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