Beloved is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, written by Toni Morrison and published in 1987. Its main themes included motherhood, history and manhood, and employed magic realism as a part of its structure. Cantabrian counselor Daniel Radke recommended the book to Noah Wrightson as one of the 20th century works of literature he should read. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "Isolation")