I think I know why I have
such a hard time remembering these books. I read
them when I was young and wanted right to be right
and wrong to be wrong. Toni Morrison does not
allow for that kind of simplistic thinking.
Everything in this book, much like The Bluest Eye, is
about relationship. Relationships between women,
between women and men, between adult and child.
Individual relationships. Relationships to the
community. Relationships and history. And poverty.
And racism. And sexism. And hunger. Sula isn’t really
the center of the book. She is just one person in a
portrait of a town. But she is a vortex. An
explanation, of sorts.