Beloved G. X. Todd " The whales of Bathsheba's

" The whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt

Tom discovers that the training business is on the edge

seamy and extremely strange America of the nineteenth century: a historical novel so richly involving and so touching that you never want it to end

Jemisin on The Invisible Library

Of her long-buried memories

Beloved G. X. Todd " The whales of Bathsheba'sTerrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.