Sula
by Toni Morrison
Buy on AmazonMorrison won the Nobel Prize in literature the same year that I read Song of Solomon in a high school English class. I loved that novel so much I read Sula (and Beloved ) for fun that summer. The friendship between Sula and Nel transformed the way I thought about love and gender.
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"Morrison won the Nobel Prize in literature the same year that I read Song of Solomon in a high school English class. I loved that novel so much I read Sula (and Beloved ) for fun that summer. The friendship between Sula and Nel transformed the way I thought about love and gender."
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"not long after Toni Morrison died, I realized that I'd never read "Sula"; not that it's news to anyone, but it's stunning."
By the Book: David Remnick · nytimes.com
"Have you ever smoked a joint and read Toni Morrison's "Sula" in a very hot bath, reveling in a single, rich paragraph for what feels like an hour? If not, may I suggest you try it?"
By the Book: Edan Lepuckis · nytimes.com
"I had somehow missed "Sula," by Toni Morrison, and what a delight that was: a page-by-page walk-through of the way a truly great human mind thinks and reasons and invents and celebrates and mourns."
By the Book: George Saunders · nytimes.com
"The character Sula was the first protagonist who made me feel okay with my own non-conformity, with the gray areas, with coloring outside the lines as a multiracial trans kid. Plus, Morrison’s writing about womanhood, convention and the fierce attachment of female friendship is astounding."
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