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Sula by Toni Morrison

16 reviews

amy_q13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Racism, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, Excrement, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Racial slurs

Minor: Slavery and War

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Grief, War, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Addiction, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Animal death, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, and Infidelity

misssleepy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This has been my favorite Toni Morrison read so far. The ending was absolutely heartbreaking, but at the same time was so beautifully done. The writing in this book was so captivating. Morrison is a master at tapping into strong emotions and writing with such specific detail. As with much of her work, there were many dark moments, however they were written with such a strange beauty that even in the heavier parts of the novel, it was hard to put down. I felt a deep fondness for Nel and Sula. I even managed to feel great sympathy for Sula though to the other characters in the novel she was revered with such strong hatred.  I am looking forward to continuing to make my way through her works. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicide and War

henrib11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Addiction, Excrement, Classism, War, Drug use, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Body shaming

jkull_10's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Abandonment, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Racial slurs

katkatniss's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

"A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs."

Finishing Sula is a mood. I have been emptied. I am dumbstruck, in awe, and lost, in the simplest and most beautiful way possible.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Infidelity, Child death, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Excrement, Drug use, Racism, Suicide, War, and Terminal illness

jennswan's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Racism, Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Drug abuse, and War

maregred's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, War, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Death

Minor: Toxic friendship and Racism

steveatwaywords's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Sula, like so many of Morrison's works, is both raw and lush. There is an exquisite peeling away of characters and places which leaves their set-upon lives tormented and ambiguous, people neither virtuous nor wicked, just people breaking and broken. And, of course, the masses of hypocrisies which surround them meanwhile.

Images here will never leave me: hands which slip, arms which open, feet that land and that do not -- the (ir)responsibility of childhoods, the desperation against aloneness, the sacrifices.

Each of our lives intersects and encapsulates; we sublimate and revise our guilts; so too does this novel work upon us, compelling us to peel back and see up close, to admit, to understand. Sula upends our own comfort even while we weep for its people. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

annahelle's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Blood, Death, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Minor: Cursing and Domestic abuse