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June 1970

  • The Bluest Eyeby Toni Morrison
    4.54 avg ratings, 52 reviewspublished June 1, 1970

    The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that...