Sula

Author: Toni Morrison

This might be my favorite of her novels. It's short, like The Bluest Eye, but I think that is part of what I love about it. I am so impressed with how many characters and events she is able to give attention to in so few pages and how each detail she choses to include is weighted with emotion. Morrison's novels, like Louise Erdrich's, make me feel as if I am living in the community they are describing. On the first read through I am just a child--hearing the names of people in my parent's conversations and experiencing the events of a community but not necessarily understanding the full impact of these events. Each time I return to the book though, I grow up a little more--people and events are more familiar and I become better at perceiving and empathizing with the emotions behind the character's actions. I like the idea that I can reread Morrison and Erdrich for the rest of my life and always be getting something more from them, not because the books ever change, but because I do.

Genre: Novel(la)