So. Facts first, and briefly, because I know people hate too much summary. In Cincinnati, in the 1870s, a former slave named Sethe lives with her surviving daughter, Denver, and the ghost of a baby she killed by her own hand. Years earlier, while a slave at the plantation Sweet Home, Sethe had escaped with her children, the baby and two sons, pregnant w…
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