The Bluest Eye - Paperback

Toni Morrison's devastating debut: a young Black girl in 1940s Ohio prays for blue eyes.

The Bluest Eye is Morrison's interrogation of how racism internalize itself, how it becomes a wound in the self. The prose is brutal and precise. This is required reading and should be.

Faculty in American literature and African American studies assign this. It is also foundational for any understanding of how Morrison constructs narrative.