As the prolific poets TLC once said: What about your friends?

Will they stand their ground?

Will they let you down …again?

Like T-Boz, Sula gets a little crazy, now and then. She may watch her mom burn to death or she may drown a neighborhood boy, and no, that’s not the way it’s supposed to be. But Sula has her reasons for being Sula. For one, her loneliness is palpable. Her dad died when she was three, and her mother loves but doesn’t like her.

No matter what Sula does or how low she gets, however, her other-half, Nel, is always by her side. They’re BFF’s. Or, at least they were until Sula did something really really bad with Nel’s really really selfish husband.

Toni Morrison’s classic short Sula is about life coming of age in a town where a dream can only go as high as the bottom and where who you want to be is more important than who you are.

Before diving into this haunting story, we discuss our own friendships and try to find an answer to the question, “What makes a real friend?”

This is LIT Society.

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