At the Paris Review, Namwali Serpell reflects on the lasting legacy of Toni Morrison’s landmark novel, Sula. “The paradox of Sula is that she’s quintessentially herself—nobody is like her—but she’s also everybody we know who is like that,” Serpell writes. “This paradox takes shape in different ways in Sula, in the novel’s preoccupations with ironic oppositions, with how the individual self-relates to the collective, with the dynamic relation between order and disorder. As is Morrison’s tendency, all aspects of the novel—I am drawn in this writing to its names—flow through these interlocking thematic valves, coordinating like an intricate machine or body.”
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