Hardcover, 216 pages
English language
Published Dec. 8, 1993 by Alfred A. Knopf.
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who 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. (back cover)
(4.5 Stars) I'll be writing a review for this over the next week.
Update (June 8): will probably not actually write any kind of review at this point but just know it is great.
