The novel “Very blue eyes” (in the original: “The bluest Eye”) by Toni Morrison is the haunting and poetic story of the downfall of the Breedlove family in the Midwest of the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.
It is told primarily from the perspective of a young Black girl. Her fervent wish is the blue eyes of the dolls and the children from the school books. With simplicity and depth, Toni Morrison describes what it means to grow up Black in a Black and white world, “[e]very world of inclusion and exclusion, wonder and terror”(publisher’s book description).
Toni Morrison 1979: Very blue eyes. Reinbek: Rowohlt.
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