Bluest eyes toni morrison

Someone once observed that only two sorts of people make a habit of rereading books: academics and children. I suspect that person never lived through a pandemic. I’m a rereader in the best of time…

In its devastating exploration of young Pecola Breedlove's quest for beauty, The Bluest Eye exposes the power and pain of our obsessions. Although it's incredibly sad, the book gives me faith with the realization that bad people aren't really bad — they're just messed up. At heart, there is strength and goodness in us all.—Cande Gruber

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.

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 childre...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

"The book is just completely objectionable, from language to the content," said Holtzclaw, who points out the novel includes depictions of incest and child molestation.