A review by buud_w0rm
Sula by Toni Morrison

dark reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The book is *to me* a commentary on needing the world to give the individual ( in this case a black woman in the 20s-40s) an identity, self, value and worth. Toni Morrison describes Sula as a whimsical instinctual girl who grows into a free woman.
Free in the sense of choosing her own responsibility or in her case choosing none. Nell however, takes on responsibilities that society expected of her and that’s the beginning of their divide.  Due to sulas promiscuity and betrayal, it initially lead me to root for Nell until Toni Morison reveals more of Nell’s own wicked nature. Morrison’s world building around the two women’s relationships even give more insight on who they are and asks the question, who is really judging of “good” and “bad”. This is a really really good friends to enemies story and the ending ughh💔 “All that time, all that time, I thought I was missing Jude.” “We was girls together,..”
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