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The Bluest Eye
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).
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“this is my first Toni Morrison book - i had heard great thing and i am not disappointed in any way. This book has brought a lot of emotions and reflections. There’s not really a major plot, this will be a rather character driven story of a girl who simply wishes she had blue eyes. Of course her gender, ethnicity and class play a major role on her experience and we as readers will always see what tremendously vile things can be said about an innocent young girl of 12 even when the worst happens to her. In the end she completely loses her mind because of all the abuses she suffers but still the story will not surprise us by what has happened to her, it will actually just tell you more and more about her life before and after the events that completely change her life. I’m really moved by this story. I think this feeling of being left out, feeling like the ugliest person in the room and not fitting in ever even when you’re trying your best is definitely something that a lot of black kids have had to endure and there’s nothing. I think this story is a mirror (like the one Pecola can’t stop looking at when she thinks she has blue eyes) we should be looking into this story and see for ourselves what role we would be playing in this book.”Vanessa Furtado
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