infanticide

Explores the reality of life for women in modern India, discussing how the renewal of ancient traditions such as sati, the self-immolation of a woman on her husband's funeral pyre, have impacted how Indian women are treated and how the country is viewed by the modern world.

In post-Civil War Ohio, the past continues to haunt the ex-slave Sethe and the surviving memebers of her family.

In this novel based on the cases of three murderous "baby farmers" of the 1890s, a nine-year-old girl suspects that her "Mama" is not truly her mother and that the infants she has taken in lately have not died of natural causes.

Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio, struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.