Step 1 : Introduction to the question "For which novel did Toni Morrison win the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?"
...In 1988, Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Beloved. Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, the book tells the story of Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman haunted—literally and psychologically—by the trauma of her past. Blending historical realism with elements of the supernatural, Beloved confronts the enduring scars of slavery in America and explores themes of memory, motherhood, identity, and freedom. The novel has cemented Morrison’s place among the most influential American writers of the 20th century.
