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Oprah Winfrey
Book Selection
Announced
April 5, 2002

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Oprah Winfrey
Book Club Selection
Announced
April 5, 2002

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Sula

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Toni Morrison
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In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s.

As girls, Nel and Sula are the best of friends, only children who find in each other a kindred spirit to share in each girl's loneliness and imagination. When they meet again as adults, it's clear that Nel has chosen a life of acceptance and accommodation, while Sula must fight to defend her seemingly unconventional choices and beliefs. But regardless of the physical and emotional distance that threatens this extraordinary friendship, the bond between the women remains unbreakable: "Her old friend had come home.... Sula, whose past she had lived through and with whom the present was a constant sharing of perceptions. Talking to Sula had always been a conversation with herself."

Lyrical and gripping, Sula is an honest look at the power of friendship amid a backdrop of family, love, race, and the human condition. --Gisele Toueg




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Announced Previously
January 24, 2002 Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
November 30, 2001 A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
September 24, 2001 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
June 20, 2001 Cane River by Lalita Tademy
May 16, 2001 Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
March 8, 2001 Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
January 24, 2001 We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
November 16, 2000 House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
September 27, 2000 Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
August 23, 2000 Open House by Elizabeth Berg
June 23, 2000 The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
May 26, 2000 While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
April 27, 2000 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
March 28, 2000 Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
February 17, 2000 Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
January 18, 2000 Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
December, 1999 A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
November, 1999 Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
October, 1999 River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
September, 1999 Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Summer, 1999 Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
May, 1999 White Oleander by Janet Fitch
April, 1999 The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
February/March, 1999 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
January, 1999 Jewel by Bret Lott
December, 1998 Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
November, 1998 Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Early Fall, 1998 What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day
by Pearl Cleage
Summer, 1998 I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
May, 1998 Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
April, 1998 Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
March, 1998 Here On Earth by Alice Hoffman
January/February, 1998 Paradise by Toni Morrison
December, 1997Three Kids' Books by Bill Cosby:
November, 1997Two Novels by Kaye Gibbons:
October, 1997 A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
June, 1997 Songs In Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
May, 1997 The Heart Of A Woman by Maya Angelou
April, 1997 The Rapture Of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
March, 1997 Stones From The River by Urusula Hegi
February, 1997 She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
January, 1997 The Deep End Of The Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
December, 1996 Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison
November, 1996 The Book Of Ruth by Jane Hamilton


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