Sula Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009) and unparalleled writing

and unparalleled writing

How much messiness should we accept

Mary Ellen Mark

and the Guardian ’s breaking of both WikiLeaks and the News of the World hacking scandal

ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds: one black and one white

Sula Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009) and unparalleled writingSula 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