Sula audio book6/23/2023 The very name of the part of town inhabited by its African American population - The Bottom - is rife with injustice itself. Without giving away too much of the plot, there are a series of unfortunate accidents - slight slips of hand or errant strands of hair - that create life-altering and life-hardening ripples in the lives of the characters living in the area of town known as The Bottom. There is a beautiful, haunting sadness that permeates this novel beginning with the early introduction to National Suicide Day, a solution dreamed up by Shadrack, a World War I veteran returning to town with visible and non-visible scars. Her novels are typically aimed at exploring the African American experience and culture and the identity struggles that accompany that journey. Sula was Toni Morrison’s second novel and predated what is probably her most well-known novel, Beloved, by about 14 years. She was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Nobel Prize for Literature. Toni Morrison is an African American writer who lived from 1931 to 2019 and was widely acclaimed during her lifetime.
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