, declaring it National Suicide Day.
The protagonist of this novel cuts off the tip of her own finger to prevent a group of Irish boys from harassing her. Its prologue describes how a slave was tricked into receiving bad land in exchange for completing some arduous tasks. The title character lives with three adopted boys all named Dewey and her uncle Plum, who is doused in kerosene and burned by Eva. The title character sleeps with her best friend's husband Jude Greene after returning from a ten year journey accompanied by a plague of robins. The World War I veteran Shadrack returns to the central town as a heroin addict and marches the streets with a cowbell and a noose every January 3rd, declaring it National Suicide Day. The protagonist of this novel befriends Nel Wright, who witnesses her accidentally drown Chicken Little. For 10 points, name this work set in the Medallion, Ohio neighborhood called The Bottom, a novel by Toni Morrison.
The protagonist of this novel cuts off the tip of her own finger to prevent a group of Irish boys from harassing her.
Sula