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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

205 pages

About this book

"So that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment."-- Provided by Amazon

Themes
HeartbreakingQuietly DevastatingDark & BroodingThought-ProvokingWho Am I?Internalized racial self-hatredDestructive standards of beautyThe fragility of childhood innocence
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