![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, the Bottom is established through trickery. The trauma characters face is both severe and beautiful as a result. ![]() Toni Morrison writes black pain like few can. If you’re read anything by Morrison, though, you know it’s not always the plot, but how it’s told that is magic. Their friendship can’t stand up under betrayal, especially since the two are so different as people now.īasically, that’s the general plot of Morrison’s book. Ten years pass, and when Sula returns it’s with bad omens galore. Sula and Nel are girls inseparable until one day Nel gets married and thus Sula leaves. Then, we meet Sula, her mother, grandmother, and a gaggle of “strays” that live with them. Sula focuses on a few individuals who live in Medallion, Ohio, a place commonly referred to as “the Bottom.” We begin by learning about how the Bottom came to be, how National Suicide Day started, then move to Nel, her mother, and grandmother. Published in 1973 by Plume, originally by Knopf I have two goals for 2017: read books with positive representations of fat women, and read books I already own written by black women. ![]()
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