The Bluest Eye
1970 • 216 pages
Ratings66
Average rating3.7
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Ratings66
Average rating3.7
Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.
In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her.
When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...
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I don't know what to say about this book. It made me think, it made me uncomfortable but most of all, the story and lyrical left me in awe. Pecola's story will not be for everyone nor will it be understood, but it needs to be told. It's a cautionary tale that comments on the impact of racism, toxic masculinity, grief, pain and the Black experience of that time.
Beautiful, sorrowful, and shame-inducing. And, as I've seen it described elsewhere, including on the back cover, “subtle” and “graceful”. A very powerful and moving novel that everyone should read. (I also liked this more than Beloved, but now I want to go back and reread Beloved.)
this book is so awful yet I've never found language that so accurately describes my self hate :/
I'm not sure how to rate this. read at your own peril. it was banned for a reason
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