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Reviewer Gayle Sims's Sula

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Sula, as put by reviewer Gayle Sims, is certainly a narrative of friendship and disappointment, death and sex, and desperation and vulnerability. Sula is truthfully a novel of human struggles, and as such discrimination, trauma, and substance abuse could easily be added to Sims’s list. Morrison’s commentary on these subjects is rather one-dimensional, not delving into them and her opinion on how each could be resolved, but instead accepting them as integral to the human experience. Everyone is going to die at some point, everyone is going to have to face disappointment and vulnerability; there is no way to avoid these issues, so why even attempt? Morrison wishes for her audience to walk away from Sula with a greater understanding of the African
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