A crime story featuring Eve Dallas, a police lieutenant in New York City - in the late-21st century. A top model has been murdered, her beautiful face smashed in. Eve takes on the case, putting her career on line because the prime suspect is her best friend.
When slavery has torn apart one's heritage, when the past is more real than the present, when the rage of a dead baby can literally rock a house, then the traditional novel is no longer an adequate instrument. And so Pulitzer Prize-winner Beloved is written in bits and images, smashed like a mirror on the floor and left for the reader to put together.