The Bluest Eye

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇó From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winnerΓÇöa powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race,classand gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In MorrisonΓÇÖs acclaimed first novelPecola BreedloveΓÇöan 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blondblue-eyed children can devastate all othersΓÇöprays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautifulso that people will look at herso that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearningand the tragedy of its fulfillment. HereMorrisonΓÇÖs writing is ΓÇ£so preciseso faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetryΓÇ¥ (The New York Times).