Okay so, Beloved is difficult. If Beloved is still in your TBR and no one's told you that, now they have. And I mean difficult in both content and structure. I started off knowing a bare minimum (which is usually my preference), but eventually turned to Google to get a basic frame of the story. I seriously felt like I wasn't on my literary game! 
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 I do agree with the structure choices stylistically. Much of the narration is acquired nonlinearly as characters unwillingly recover terrible, traumatic memories. Sethe has long coped by avoiding painful details of her history, and they understandably bubble up a bit muddied. Appropriately, Morrison uses some stream of consciousness, her writing lyrical and withholding, leading the reader through incomprehension and frustration right along with the characters. 
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 However, I honestly felt I spent too much time in confusion. Maybe it was just my mood but it made me read impatiently, so my emotional connection to the story was limited. 
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 On the other side now, I get why people love Morrison's novel. It's immensely powerful - a ghost story borne of unspeakable violence, of the trauma of slavery and injustice of racism - and the imagery is stark. I just wish I could have admired it as much along the way.