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1970
The Bluest Eye
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Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her. When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...
Creators
Drama
Fiction
Fiction, coming of age
Literary Fiction
Historical fiction
New York Times bestseller
girls
open library staff picks
General
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Coming of age
African Americans
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
literature
Blacks
Literary
Bildungsromans
Novels
Fictional Works
Fiction in English
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African Americans -- Fiction
Conformity
Racism
Afro-Americans
African American
1000blackgirlbooks
Ohio, fiction
Girls in fiction
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Incest
Child abuse
Race identity
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African Americans in fiction
flashback
Afro-Americans in fiction
african american girls
inferiority complex
whiteness
Dick and Jane
Eye
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foster care
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African American fiction
third-person narrative
Ohio in fiction
Colorism
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
Eleven-year-old girls
