The Bluest Eye

Description:

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: foster care,  Dick and Jane,  flashback,  White Anglo-Saxon Protestants,  inferiority complex,  whiteness,  third-person narrative,  Coming of age,  African American fiction,  Eye,  African American girls,  Eleven-year-old girls,  Incest,  Fiction,  Open Library Staff Picks,  novels,  fictional works,  blacks,  literary fiction,  Bildungsromans,  Girls in fiction,  Girls,  African Americans in fiction,  African Americans,  Ohio in fiction,  Fiction in English,  Afro-Americans,  Afro-Americans in fiction,  Literature,  open_syllabus_project,  Literary,  African American,  1000blackgirlbooks,  Historical fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Ohio, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2019-08-25,  New York Times bestseller,  collectionID:TexChallenge2021,  collectionID:KellerChallenge,  collectionID:EanesChallenge,  collectionID:ConroeChallenge,  Race identity,  Racism,  Child abuse,  Colorism,  Conformity,  General,  Drama,  Classics,  Race

People: Pecola Breedlove,  Claudia MacTeer,  Frieda MacTeer,  Cholly Breedlove,  Pauline Breedlove,  Sam Breedlove,  Auntie Jimmy,  Samson Fuller,  The Fishers,  Geraldine,  Louis Junior,  Maginot Line,  Rosemary Villanucci,  Mr. Yacobowski,  Maureen Peal,  Soaphead Church,  Dick,  Jane

Places: Ohio,  Lorain

Times: 1941