BS-120LFLiterature & Fiction
The Bluest Eye
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- LF · BS-120
- Language
- English
- Physical copies
- 1
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Published
- 1999
- Edition
- 5th printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780099759911
- Verification
- Verified
What it is about
Toni Morrison’s first novel follows Pecola Breedlove, a Black girl who comes to desire blue eyes in a world that equates whiteness with beauty and worth. Its shifting voices reveal how racism, poverty, family violence, shame, and communal cruelty become internalized, while its formal structure refuses a single, comforting explanation. I keep it on this shelf because I want to let another life disturb my own habits of thought.
Why I keep it
Morrison's first. It broke something in me and I kept it.
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