![]() When Paul D, who was enslaved with Sethe at Sweet Home, meets Sethe again after years apart, the two act on their attraction to each other and pursue a relationship. After the murder, Sethe, unable to pay for an engraving on her daughter’s gravestone, traded sex with the engraver who left the inscription, “Beloved.” Sethe’s mother-in-law, Grandma Baby Suggs, has passed away, and her two sons, Howard and Buglar, left home to escape the ghost, their mother, and their family history more broadly. Sethe had planned to kill all her children and then herself but was interrupting after only killing her eldest daughter. ![]() Sethe resides at 124 Bluestone Road near Cincinnati, Ohio with her daughter, Denver, and the ghost of her other daughter, whom Sethe murdered when she was a baby so the daughter would not be returned to slavery. ![]() The novel begins in 1873, eight years after slavery was abolished. ![]()
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