No book stimulated me more than Morrison’s. The Bluest Eye was a puzzle: the way the book began, evoking the Dick-and-Jane-and-Mother-and-Father photograph from basic reading primers I knew nothing about; the way it was structured (the book was divided into four parts, each a season of the year); the way Morrison revealed the entire plot of the book on the very first page (Pecola Breedlove, the eleven-year-old at the center of the story, is impregnated by her own father, and she will live and her child will die); the way Morrison used language, including the italics that open the narrative.
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