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In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: 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.
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s lyrical first novel, a poignant reflection on a young black girl’s struggles with beauty in the 1940s. First time in Vintage. NATIONAL BESTSELLER. VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL.
