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 Beautifully poetic and the scenes are unforgettable. How can you forget that one scene where the mother lights herself on fire in the backyard, and the one-legged grandmother tries with all her might to climb up to the window shattering it and leaping to the backyard like Superman, then fighting tooth and nail to crawl her way to her daughter in an attempt to save her. It's crazy! Or Sula cutting off her finger to save Nel from some bullies, and Toni Morrison describing it like a button-mushroom. That's incredible! Or the descriptions of the war and running in slow motion and seeing a comrade have his face blown open with a shell, and his skull falling to the ground like a bloody soup bowl. Ick! 
 A wonderful story. So poetic. So sad. The sorrow goes around your heart like an endless circle. Unforgettable.