Beloved by Toni Morrison

Review written by a cozy specialist (May 2020): This story and a mood-enhancing candle is the perfect match. It’s hard to read Beloved without allowing it to read you.

“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 tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.”