" One woman in this novel only has one leg, which she always covers with expensive stockings, and she eventually lights her adopted son on fire.
One character in this novel almost dies as a baby because he shoves pebbles up his ass, and another character thinks his fingers grow "in a higgledy-piggledy fashion like Jack's beanstalk." One woman in this novel only has one leg, which she always covers with expensive stockings, and she eventually lights her adopted son on fire. Another character walks around the town with a cowbell and a noose every year on January 3rd, which he declares as National Suicide Day. In this book Plum is killed by Eva, who later jumps out of a window trying to save her daughter Hannah. The protagonist has an affair with her best friend's husband Jude Greene, after she grows apart from her friend when they accidentally drown a boy named Chicken Little by throwing him into a river. The title character of this novel lives in an area of Medallion, Ohio called "the Bottom" and becomes lifelong friends with Nel Wright. For 10 points, identify this novel about the title girl from the Peace family, written by Toni Morrison.
One character in this novel almost dies as a baby because he shoves pebbles up his ass, and another character thinks his fingers grow "in a higgledy-piggledy fashion like Jack's beanstalk.
Sula