The Bluest Eye April 17, 2011

This bittersweet drama preserves the vigor and disquiet of Toni Morrison’s first novel. Set in the 1940s, Pecola is a young black girl who yearns to see the world through blue eyes so that she may be loved. In truth, the world needs to see Pecola through a lens unclouded by racism and beauty defined by a myopic white culture. This is a beautiful, tragic story of childhood innocence lost told through Morrison’s brilliant prose.

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