The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
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 picked this up to read along with a zoom meeting where multiple female authors are reading parts of the book. It was wonderful!
The book had been on my TBR list for a long time, and listening to other authors read the work was amazing, especially since so many of the women reading were well-established writers and I was a bit star struck.
I would recommend this book.
The book had been on my TBR list for a long time, and listening to other authors read the work was amazing, especially since so many of the women reading were well-established writers and I was a bit star struck.
I would recommend this book.
This book was beautifully written. The social commentary is also so important and relevant to the world we live in today. Such a sad book that can be hard to get through, but it’s perfect!
Lovely written book. Touches on important messages and the format is a really engaging way to tell the story. It does however get difficult to read at times due to the content. Definitely trigger warnings for this book.
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