Sula

=Sula by Toni Morrison=

Sula Peace Aurore - Amy Nel Wright Amelie - Darren Shadrack Alex S - Sara Eva Peace Ching - David Hannah Peace Patrick - Alex C Helene Wright Isabel - Sehoon Jude Greene Cameron - Alan
 * Major characters**

Cecile Sabat Rochelle Sabat Amelie - Darren Plum Peace Cameron - Alan Boyboy Ajax Patrick - Alex C Wiley Wright Ching - David Chicken Little Alex S - Sara Tar Baby Aurore - Amy deweys Isabel - Sehoon
 * Minor characters**

Tar Baby -- Toni Morrison's own note on the name white people call black children, black girls, as I recall…. At one time, a tar pit was a holy place, at least an important place, because tar was used to build things…. It held together things like Moses' little boat and the pyramids. For me, the tar baby came to mean the black woman who can hold things together." [|1] ||
 * "Tar Baby is also a name, like "nigger," that

=An essay about __Sula__, the novel, as one about the attempt to fight "fragmentation"= == = = = = = = = = =Another view of Sula, the characterespecially interesting if you know a little something about African folklore, beliefs, superstitions = = = =And a negative book review= we don't __all__ love Morrison! "You Still Can't Go Home Again" by Sara Blackburn, __New York Times__ 30 Dec. 1973

=Yet another writer takes on the "aestheticism" of __Sula__,= but finds something deeply meaningful and praiseworthy about it. Find this article, "'Circles and Circles of Sorrow': In the Wake of Morrison's __Sula__", by Philip Novak, (PMLA, Vol. 114, No. 2, March 1999, pgs. 184-193) on JSTOR -- Exceptional and insightful, a very interesting take on Morrison's style