Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different.
The bluest eye
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mass market paperback, 160 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1972 by Washington Square Press.
Subjects
- Coming of age
- African American fiction
- Eye
- African American girls
- Eleven-year-old girls
- Incest
- Fiction