ARGONAUT BOOKS

This is a novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a vagrant city life for ten years. When she returns, the bond of their friendship is broken. Reviews Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitterNew York TimesMorrison explores the mythic power of femininity in a poor and isolated rural black community where women rule as mothers, warriors, witches and story-tellers... One of the most compel...Read More