Banned Book Review: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Vintage
Published June 24, 2007 (Orig. 1970)
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About The Bluest Eye
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity—and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace.
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 … Continue reading
