... editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. Sula, her second novel, deals with themes of race, womanhood, the effects of history, and the contingencies of love. As Sara Blackburn wrote in her review of Sula after the book's release in 1973, "Toni Morrison is someone who really knows how to clank a senten and her dialogue is so ... caused. Sula's view of evil and her motives are based on a different goal and she evaluates her actions by a different set of standards; in other words, "Sula was distinctly different" (Morrison, 118). Sula "h...

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