The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrisons first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the authors 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 she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves garden do not bloom. Pecolas life does change- in painful, devastating ways.What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a childs yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrisonss most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.