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Sula
by Toni Morrison
Beautiful and brutal, as I have come to expect from Morrison's work. The decades-long story of a town and the appearance, departure and reappearance of the generations that live there. From Shadrack, who begins a tradition of calling the residents of the town one day a year to kill themselves cleanly for their sake and the sake of everyone else in the town, to Nel and Sula and their relationship from childhood to heartbreaking adulthood. Sula gives an astounding complexity and freshness given how little she actually speaks.
One of my favorite themes in this book was that of how sorrow gets verbalized, and the necessity for that expression. Death and betrayal and regret all require their own expression, if only to mark the occasion. Something must be said, and over the course of the book Nel, in particular, must come to grips with the cycles of sorrow and the expressing needed during those times.
One of my favorite themes in this book was that of how sorrow gets verbalized, and the necessity for that expression. Death and betrayal and regret all require their own expression, if only to mark the occasion. Something must be said, and over the course of the book Nel, in particular, must come to grips with the cycles of sorrow and the expressing needed during those times.