Sula

Toni Morrison

Aug 2007 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Toni Morrison

About this audiobook

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness. 

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital, Sula is a modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must we hold back? And just how much can be shared in a friendship?

Ratings and reviews

Good book, Poor Audio work for an Audio book. I'm not writing against the Book, I'm writing again the narration. I understand the Narrator(Also the Author) is adding extra flare and flavor as only the Author can. But, I could barely hear it. The Audio is horrible, and one would need to listen to this with tight earbuds, in a completely quiet setting at full volume, and you will still struggle to hear what she is saying. Much less what normal people do, which is listen while working out, or driving.

About the author

Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She now divides her time between Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. She is the author of five other novels: Paradise, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book Critics Award for fiction, Tar Baby and Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.