Bottom, i.e., bottom of heaven, is an ironic name for a hilly village above the valley town of Medallion, Ohio. It was here where, spanning over five decades of birth, loss, and extraordinary scenes of survival, madness, and anger, the story of two friends, Sula Peace and Nel Wright, was laid in a grand pattern. These vivid and powerful accounts of black experience over those years exploded near the end in a spectacular fashion.