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Sula by Toni Morrison
They were solitary little girls whose loneliness was so profound it intoxicated them and sent them stumbling into Technicolored visions that always included a presence, a someone, who, quite like the dreamer, shared the delight of the dream. Toni Morrisonβs Sula revolves around the eponymous and fraught character of Sula Peace. Within the novel, Morrison…
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