Beloved - Toni Morrison

It's making me cry at the oddests things.

 

Like, there is the brutality (mostly inferred, none explicit so far), and the tragedy, and the whole landscape itself. And, OK, I'm not unmoved, but mostly wincing in horror more that tearing up.

 

And then there is that "mass" at the clearing, and a page about being able to love, and suddenly I'm sobbing like mad because...

 

Well, maybe it's not so odd. Because this book is functioning by negative space. What's there shows you what's absent very powerfully. And what's absent is a void that sucks attention to itself, and demands to be acknowledged, and holy molly, this is turning into me writing the review...