Two friends who become something worse than enemies. Two girls who grow up to become women. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal--or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah.