Dark-fruited and smoldering, with a peppery edge, it carries Sula's refusal to live by the Bottom's rules. Its warmth and bite reward slow attention, like Morrison's sentences.
Silky and gently aching, it speaks to Nel's tender, constrained side of the friendship. Its lingering red-cherry finish suits the grief of that last cry in the cemetery.
Two women, bound in childhood and split by choices, anchor Morrison's portrait of a Black community in Ohio. Lush prose and sharp moral questions give the friendship its complicated, burning heart.
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