Sula
1973 · 174 pages
Nel stays in her Ohio town and marries. Sula leaves for ten years, returns, and the town settles on her as its evil. Morrison makes their friendship the deepest bond either will know.
★ 6.5
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Song of Solomon
1977 · 337 pages
Hunting gold in the South, a rich man's bored son finds his family's history instead, hidden in a song children sing. Morrison turns it into myth: an African ancestor who flew home.
★ 8.4