The Bluest Eye
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176 pages
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...
ISBN: 9788484504368
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Diane Rehm
Media & Journalism"The story of a young girl growing up in the years following the Great Depression and who is convinced that her blackness makes her ugly and worthless."
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Oprah Winfrey
Media & Journalism"One of the things [the author is] able to do in this book is [to let] people know that they are not alone."
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