Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio.

"Extravagantly beautiful. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter." -- The New York Times

Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal--or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.

BIO 

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

REVIEWS

"Extravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter." -- The New York Times

"Exemplary. . . . The essential mysteries of death and sex, friendship and poverty are expressed with rare economy." -- Newsweek

 "In characters like Sula, Toni Morrison's originality and power emerge." -- The Nation

[H] Knopf Publishing Group  /  April 05, 2002

0.76" H x 8.72" L x 5.92" W (0.77 lbs) 192 pages

[P] Vintage  /  June 08, 2004

0.6" H x 7.9" L x 5.1" W (0.4 lbs) 192 pages