Sula
Toni Morrison
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Sula is a masterclass in literary precision. It is 192 pages of meticulously organised chaos, in which Morrison packs in the rich family histories of two protagonists, a witch-hunt, infidelity, insurance fraud, addiction, insanity, a wedding and several major crimes. Plus two characters are independently set on fire. Most remarkably, though, in the midst of all this, Morrison carves out a deeply-felt story about the cost of freedom as a black woman in America, and the decisions one makes in order to survive. This story will grip you by every hair on your body, and is the perfect place to start with an author like no other.
'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter’ New York Times
As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married.
Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. Sula is a story of fear – the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength, Sula is a woman of uncompromising power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down.
‘What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age’ Alice Walker, Guardian
BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
