A Kedves by Toni Morrison

Set shortly after the Civil War, a formerly enslaved woman trying to make a home with her daughter in Cincinnati is haunted by the ghost of the baby she lost and by the trauma of her past. When a mysterious young woman appears at her door, the fragile household is drawn into a consuming reckoning with memory, guilt, love, and the brutal legacy of slavery, forcing the family and their community to confront what it means to claim a future.