The Bluest Eye April 15, 2008

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's heart wrenching masterpiece is a haunting and tragic portrait of a yong black girl's coming of age in the racially turbulent 1940s. Ridiculed by her peers and her family, Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to be loved. Each evening, she makes the same prayer for, "blue eyes to be pretty, blue eyes to be noticed, blue eyes to be accepted." This story of a girl with a seemingly innocent desire that transforms from childish wish into disturbing obsession remains poignantly relevant and an eerie reflection of today's unattainable standards of beauty.