river taylor’s Reviews > Sula > Status Update

Finally finished part 1 of 2. While the entire premise of this book is that it deals with friendship and betrayal and what opportunities (if any) are offered to black women, it seems as though this first half of the novel was setting up necessary context, not just in Sula and Nel’s lives, but the lives of their ancestors and community members, for why this eventual betrayal will be so heartbreaking

Lots of thoughts so far on: religion, denial of one’s perception of reality, and rejection of personal identity as a result of extreme trauma