A new edition of the first novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results because of her longing to be accepted.Pecola Breedlove prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.
Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife.
A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic The Bluest Eye asks powerful questions about race, class and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.
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