Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' sparks debate in Virginia governor?s race
“124 was spiteful.”
So begins Toni Morrison’s classic novel “Beloved.”
But the spite in that house at 124 Bluestone Road is nothing like the rage tearing apart the state of Virginia this fall.
Improbably, the governor’s race — already spooked by the specter of former president Donald Trump — is swirling around issues of literary merit, educational standards and Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the life of a Civil War-era Black woman who kills her own baby rather than see the child enslaved on a Southern plantation.
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