Coffee-Stained Nightstand: Next Up

I've decided to reread The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison for my first book this month.  March is Women's History Month, so I thought it would be appropriate to read an influential woman writer.

From the back cover:

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, eleven-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.

With 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 Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels--and a significant work of American fiction.