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A review by barebookery
Sula by Toni Morrison
5.0
I saw someone post something the other day that said “No words are wasted in a Toni Morrison novel” and truer words couldn’t have been spoken.
This book was very juicy. I finished it must faster than I was expecting to but that’s honestly because I just couldn’t put it down. It had everything — drama, history, sex, immersive imagery and dialogue…I was truly satisfied throughout. I actually struggled to summarize the book for this post because it touches on so much: gender roles, family pathologies, sexuality, racism, how communities can build us up or tear us down, and so much more.
In many ways, I also think “Sula” is about the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive day to day and how we consistently push away the truths we need to face in order to move to the next level.
This book was very juicy. I finished it must faster than I was expecting to but that’s honestly because I just couldn’t put it down. It had everything — drama, history, sex, immersive imagery and dialogue…I was truly satisfied throughout. I actually struggled to summarize the book for this post because it touches on so much: gender roles, family pathologies, sexuality, racism, how communities can build us up or tear us down, and so much more.
In many ways, I also think “Sula” is about the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive day to day and how we consistently push away the truths we need to face in order to move to the next level.