Sula Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009) Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark

and unparalleled writing

But God's Word makes it clear that not everything that glitters is gold

In interviews throughout the book

and onto regeneration

Sula Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009) Mary Ellen MarkSula and Nel are two young black girls: clever and poor. They grow up together sharing their secrets, dreams and happiness. Then Sula breaks free from their small town community in the uplands of Ohio to roam the cities of America. When she returns ten years later much has changed. Including Nel, who now has a husband and three children. The friendship between the two women becomes strained and the whole town grows wary as Sula continues in her