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Sula
Toni Morrison · Literary Fiction
60 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
coming of agefound familymorally grey character
coming of age
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
#82 All Time
About this book
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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