The Bluest Eye
About this book
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...
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- african american
- african american fiction
- african american girls
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african americans in fiction
- afro-americans
- afro-americans in fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- bildungsromans
- blacks
- child abuse
- collectionid:conroechallenge
- collectionid:eaneschallenge
- collectionid:kellerchallenge
- collectionid:texchallenge2021
- colorism
- coming of age
- conformity
- dick and jane
- eleven-year-old girls
- eye
- fiction
- fictional works
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction in english
- flashback
- foster care
- general
- girls
- girls in fiction
- historical fiction
- incest
- inferiority complex
- literary
- literary fiction
- literature
- new york times bestseller
- novels
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2019-08-25
- ohio, fiction
- ohio in fiction
- open library staff picks
- open_syllabus_project
- race identity
- racism
- third-person narrative
- white anglo-saxon protestants
- whiteness