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Book Review of The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.