The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove—a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed childre...

In its devastating exploration of young Pecola Breedlove's quest for beauty, The Bluest Eye exposes the power and pain of our obsessions. Although it's incredibly sad, the book gives me faith with the realization that bad people aren't really bad — they're just messed up. At heart, there is strength and goodness in us all.—Cande Gruber

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Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

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Toni Morrison's book portrays the struggles of race and beauty standards in the 1940s. Learn how to teach it here!