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The Bluest Eye

(1969)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2000 Oprah's Book Club Award (nominee)

The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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