Sula
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4.1 • 14 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital, Sula is a modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must we hold back? And just how much can be shared in a friendship?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In the early 1920s in a small Ohio town, friends Nel and Sula are inseparable, until a series of tragedies causes Sula to leave town under a cloud of gossip and rumor. But her return years later upends Nel’s orderly, settled life. Toni Morrison shows us the complexity of both women—the nonconforming Sula isn’t just a “bad girl” and her role in the community is just as vital as Nel’s, whose prim, upstanding reputation hides emotions and desires every bit as tempestuous as her friend’s. Years before “intersectionality” became a common term, Morrison honors the lives and experiences of black women through these two unforgettable characters, and examines the strengths and the limitations of being black and being a woman in a time and place where both were often viewed as second-class citizens. It resonates as much today as it did upon its 1973 publication.
