The Bluest Eye
In Morrison’s bestselling 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.
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I grabbed this off my book case to read for the Drunk Knitter's MKALBookClub (links in my review). I'm glad I did. Heartbreakingly relevant even today.
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I was slow to appreciate this book as it meanders in its telling. I'm an ex-Catholic, then agnostic, and again Christian (Episcopalianish) but this is a very moving and persuasive condemnation of both God and man.
4.5/5
Morrison was truly one of a kind. Her writing is deft and evocative, even while describing harrowing brutality. A lot of the content of this book was absolutely horrifying and difficult to read, but the writing kept me going. The use of the Dick and Jane motif throughout to contrast the supposed American dream with the reality of living in a deeply racist society for its black characters was simple but inspired.
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Morrison was truly one of a kind. Her writing is deft and evocative, even while describing harrowing brutality. A lot of the content of this book was absolutely horrifying and difficult to read, but the writing kept me going. The use of the Dick and Jane motif throughout to contrast the supposed American dream with the reality of living in a deeply racist society for its black characters was simple but inspired.
I loved The Bluest Eye but it...read more
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