num_pages: 189
description: Sula and Nel are two young black girls: clever and poor. They grow up together sharing their secrets, dreams and happiness. Then Sula breaks free from their small-town community in the uplands of Ohio to roam the cities of America. When she returns ten years later much has changed. Including Nel, who now has a husband and three children. The friendship between the two women becomes strained and the whole town grows wary as Sula continues in her wayward, vagabond and uncompromising ways.
language: English
title: Sula
titlecomplete: Sula
characters: Helene Wright, Hannah Peace, Sula Peace, Eva Peace, Nel Wright Greene
genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, Race, African American, Classics, Feminism, Fiction
ratings_count: 90913
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: Vintage Books