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Many reviewers talk about the relationship between Nell and Sula - and certainly it’s the core of the story, but what I really loved about this was that it’s a portrait of a community, specific in time and location and race. I listened to the author read the audiobook and it was really restful - both her style of narration and the prose.
Ms. Morrison is a good storyteller. I enjoyed this book. The story wasn't always chronological, but it flowed and made sense. I look forward to reading more of her books.
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“She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula
― Toni Morrison, Sula
A beautifully written book that basically follows the lives of two black women from the same small town who take very different paths in life but eventually some back together...not always, in fact rarely, seeing eye to eye.
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