Sula

  

Sula

Morrison, Toni

Fiction M8345s1982

Traces the lives of Nel and Sula, two black heroines who grow up together in a small Ohio town and then take divergent paths. Nel chooses to stay in the place of her birth and become a pillar of the tightly knit black community, while Sula escapes to college and city life. Their stories create a rendering of what it means and costs to exist and survive as a black woman in America.