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Imagine looking around yourself and seeing images of "beauty" that look nothing like you. Even within your own community, you feel (and are told you are) ugly because you are darker than your peers. Imagine believing that if you just had blue eyes, you would be beautiful.
This story grows out of a real, schoolyard conversation that Toni Morrison had with a childhood friend. She nurtured and processed that memory until it became The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970. In the edition I read, ther ...more
This story grows out of a real, schoolyard conversation that Toni Morrison had with a childhood friend. She nurtured and processed that memory until it became The Bluest Eye, first published in 1970. In the edition I read, ther ...more
Nov 18, 2020
Dana
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it was amazing
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This book at times is sheer poetry. I hadn't read Morrison since Beloved in a college English class when I was too young to appreciate it or understand racism and pain. It is amazing that The Bluest Eye is Morrison's first novel. Pecola's story is heartbreaking and tragic. There's occasional comic relief, including with my favorite characters--three prostitutes China, Poland, and Marie--who are some of the only supportive characters in the book. Racism and feeling ugly because of race are diffic
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Apr 09, 2025
Emily
marked it as to-read
