Sula

“Even Nobel Prize winners love a loose woman. Sula Peace, the namesake/uneasy heroine of this novel, is the obsession of her small town as she makes her way through its stock of married men, having the kind of orgasms that make you think "wow, I am NOT doing this right." Toni Morrison is never working on less than the levels, so this is a glimpse not only into the hopes and heartbreaks of a Black community across decades in a changing America, but also into the way that flouting the sexual manners of the moment lead to more conflict with the women watching than with the men participating. I read this book for the first time in 7th grade, and it’s stayed in rotation since. Sula is impossible to forget- for her more steadfast and constricted best friend Nel, for the men she loves and leaves, and ultimately for the reader.”