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Toni Morrison · 1973
A novel exploring female friendship, freedom, and individualism among Black women in a community called the Bottom during the 1920s-1940s, examining the choices and sacrifices of four women—Hannah, Eva, Nel, and Sula—against the backdrop of racial and gender constraints.
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What this book knows
Female friendship is the novel's true love story; everything else—men, community, death—orbits that bond and its rupture.
intimacy
their friendship was so close, they themselves had difficulty distinguishing one's thoughts from the other's
ST-RC-054To lose Jude and not have Sula to talk to about it because it was Sula that he had left her for. Now her thighs were really empty.
ST-RC-068self-and-identity
Holding the knife in her right hand, she pressed her left forefinger down hard on its edge… Her aim was determined but inaccurate.
ST-RC-036'But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me.'
ST-RC-064trauma-and-survival
They knew anger well but not despair, and they didn't stone sinners for the same reason they didn't commit suicide—it was beneath them.
ST-RC-056Eighteen months later she swept down from a wagon with two crutches, a new black pocketbook, and one leg.
ST-RC-024Illuminates
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