Sula

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottoma small town at thetop of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel iswell-mannered, a mammas girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge abond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have tobear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetimeuntil, decades later, as thegirls become women, Sulas anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyondforgiveness.

One ofThe Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital,Sulais amodern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthedfrom slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters whostruggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for andcrave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must wehold back? And justhowmuch can be shared in a friendship?

About the Author

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, fromTheBluest Eye(1970) toGod Help the Child(2015). Shereceived the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.