num_pages: 174
description: Toni Morrison has come to be recognized as one of the most important novelists in America today--and Sula ranks high among her extraordinary triumphs. This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines--from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation. The one, Nel Wright, chooses to stay in place of her birth, to marry, to raise a family, to become a pillar of the tightly knit black community. The other, Sula Peace, rejects all that Nel has accepted. She escapes to college, submerges herself in city life, and when she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel, a mocker, a wanton sexual seductress. Both women must suffer the consequences of their choices; both must decide if they can afford to harbor the love they have for each other; and both combine to create an unforgettable rendering of what it means and costs to exist and survive as a black woman in America.
language: English
title: Sula
titlecomplete: Sula
characters: Hannah Peace, Helene Wright, Eva Peace, Sula Peace, Nel Wright Greene
genres: Feminism, Race, Novels, Literature, School, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, African American, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 91030
places: Ohio
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Audie Award
category: Narration by the Author or Authors, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: New American Library