![]() This book is part of the 2020 Berkeley Summer Reading List. Morrison published both novels while still working as an editor at Random House, where she edited books by. ![]() Sula was her second novel, following her 1970 dbut The Bluest Eye. ![]() Morrison was the author of 11 novels and four works of nonfiction. Morrison traces the path of Sula and Nel’s relationship over decades - through a deep rupture, a partial reconciliation, and the realization of how loss of connection can devastate and create “circles and circles of sorrow.” The novel challenges us to consider female friendships: their power and possibilities how forces such as patriarchy, economics, family, and race structure and (re)strain such connections and the price women pay for the choices they make and the agency they exercise.Ĭenters for Educational Equity and Excellence, CE3 Sula, written by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, was first published in 1973. Although they come from starkly contrasting families, Sula and Nel forge an abiding friendship and emotional connection, solidified by their holding the secret of an accidental death. ![]() Toni Morrison’s second novel, Sula (1973), traces the friendship between the title character and her friend Nel, girls who, during their childhoods in the Bottom, a segregated black neighborhood in Medallion, Ohio, were “two throats and one eye,” yet whose connection is ultimately fractured. Childhood friendships are often the stuff of deep, organic, unspoken connection. ![]()
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