Sula

As girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's discoveries 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 the story of the fear that makes people accept self-pity; the fear that will not countenance escape and that justifies itself through myth and legend. Sula herself is cast as a witch and demon by the people who resent her strength. They attack her with the most pervasive weapon of all, the weapon of language and story. But Sula is a woman of power, a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down.

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"Extravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter." --"The New York Times <br>"Exemplary. . . . The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy." --"Newsweek <br>"In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power emerge." --"The Nation <br>"Enchanting. . . . Powerful." --"Chicago Daily News <br>"Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature." --"The New York Review of Books <br>"Sula" is one of the most beautifully written, sustained works of fiction I have read in some time. . . . [Morrison] is a major talent." --Elliot Anderson, "Chicago Tribune <br>"As mournful as a spiritual and as angry as a clenched fist . . . written in language so pure and resonant that it makes you ache." --"Playboy <br>"In the first ranks of our living novelists." --"St. Louis Post-Dispatch <br>"Toni Morrison's gifts are rare: the re-creation of the black experience in America with both artistry and authenticity." --"Library Journal <br>"Should be read and passed around by book-lovers everywhere." --"Los Angeles Free Press<br>

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Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of nine novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and most recently, A Mercy and has received the National Book Critic's Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University.

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