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The Bluest EyeJESSICA'S PICK From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winnera powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson. In Morrisons acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlovean 11 year old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue eyed children can devastate all othersprays for her eyes to turn blue: so

but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles

Harvey Wallbanger)

pouring from her in a great deluge

Cover image by Annie Collinge

the local bookstore is not only the beginning of her reading journey

and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Greens

Fred meets Downer

others denounced it as sexist or superficial

The closeness

from the soldier beetle who winks messages from God to the racehorses that run forever in the author’s mind

and develop feelings for each other along the way

the South always draws her back home