The story of the neighborhood unfolds years after it has ceased to exist. Sula begins with the story of an African-American neighborhood that once existed on the periphery of a town called Medallion. Sula confronts issues of loyalty, family, assimilation, innocence, gender, and sexuality, but is at its heart an examination of the priorities that determine the character, quality, and relationships of a woman’s lifetime. As children, the two girls in question, Sula Peace and Nel Wright, function as two halves of a whole, often seeming to complete each other in opposition.Īs they reach and achieve maturity, the differences in the girls’ responses to the pressure to conform to the norms of their community separate them and split their bond, which is not reconciled until the end of the novel. Like The Bluest Eye, the novel is a story of two girls coming of age. Sula (1974) is Toni Morrison’s second published novel.
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