The title character disappears from 124 Bluestone Road when her mother attacks Mr. Bodwin with an ice pick after mistaking him for a sadistic schoolteacher and slave owner.
One character in this novel insists that she did not strangle her mother while they were at the Clearing, but that she was strangled by the "circle of iron". The protagonist of this novel worked on Mr. Garner's Sweet Home plantation in Kentucky with Paul D, who compares his heart to a "tin (*) tobacco box". The title character disappears from 124 Bluestone Road when her mother attacks Mr. Bodwin with an ice pick after mistaking him for a sadistic schoolteacher and slave owner. For 10 points, name this novel in which Sethe is haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed, a work by Toni Morrison.
One character in this novel insists that she did not strangle her mother while they were at the Clearing, but that she was strangled by the "circle of iron".
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