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Sula full book5/30/2023 But this is softened because the story is told with such beautiful prose. I found the subject matter and the story to be hard reading. She is at best, unconventional and at worst, provocative. Sula leaves the Bottom and goes off to college, only returning after experiencing many cities across the country. She raises a family and takes the conventional road, in keeping with the way her mother did before her. Then, one day, a dreadful accident happens and things change. They share experiences, feelings and grow up together as an outlet away from their respective homes. Sula and Nel become friends at around 12 years old. It shows what that sort of struggle can do to a young woman’s personality. It shows pain, not so much overcome as accepted alongside happiness. It is a brutal story of poverty, the strength of black women and just how far they will go for themselves and their families. We are also shown briefly into Nel’s family as a counterpoint. We are introduced to three generations of the Peace family, grandmother Eva, mother Hannah and Sula, herself. The setting is the Bottom, a hillside settlement of blacks above the white valley town of Medallion. We follow them from their girlhood through their family’s experiences and through to death. Sula is the first book by Toni Morrison that I have read and I’m certain it won’t be the last.Ĭovering the period following the First World War up until the mid 1960s, we are introduced to Sula Peace and her best friend Nel Wright.
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