Book discussion on Zoom - The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
July 1, 2020 |
San Diego Mesa College will host a Zoom session to discuss the book The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 24, 2020. A Canvas account is required to join.
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways. What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Tony Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels and a significant work of American fiction.
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