Sula - Toni Morrison [In-person Meeting]

This event is supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy’s Local Partners Programme.

N.B. this meeting will be held in person in the Prince of Wales pub near Covent Garden. There is also an online session held on Thursday if you are not in London or are not able to attend in person for any other reason.

Friendship and antagonism, community and individuality, loyalty and betrayal - just some of the themes in Sula by Toni Morrison. Continuing our 'Crisis of Values' year, we join childhood friends Sula and Nel after the former returns home after 10 years of a vagabond life and tests the boundaries of acceptability in a small Ohio town in the 1920s.

The meeting starts at 7pm with drink breaks at 8 and 9. The discussion will end around 10pm but leave whenever you need to.

Here's the blurb from GoodReads:

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. 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. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. 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.