'The Bluest Eye,' Toni Morrison's first novel, is presented at A Noise Within in a stage adaptation by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Andi Chapman.

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...

Adapted from Toni Morrison's 1970 novel, "The Bluest Eye" depicts the psychological effects of prejudice on a race of children conditioned to accept the fact that they cannot be beautiful because ...

Celebrate the legacy of Toni Morrison's acclaimed novel The Bluest Eye. Brought to life as a tremendously moving theatrical event by Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly, Smart People,) The Bluest Eye ...

Some books my mother left helped me understand her; some books she left were meant to help me understand others. When I pick up “The Bluest Eye” I will think of my mother and thank her for leaving it ...

“The Bluest Eye” is about a young Black girl, ... Internalizing their disgust, she prays for blue eyes, thinking that they will make her beautiful and therefore, lovable.

Morrison didn’t touch the story—which featured a Black girl who desired blue eyes—for years, but eventually, she incorporated what she wrote into The Bluest Eye. 2.

After months of absence from the Pinellas County district library in Florida, Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” is back on shelves and available for checkout for 9th through 12th graders.

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison. Holt, $5.95 (164p) ... Most of all, however, she dreams of the magic day when she will be given blue eyes, bluer than the eyes of Shirley Temple.

The Bluest Eye. Regional Play. A Noise Within Repertory Company; 3352 East Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, CA; ... wants nothing more than to be loved and prays for Shirley Temple’s blue eyes.

“The Bluest Eye,” Toni Morrison’s 1970 look at the aftermath of slavery (and by proxy, colorism) and gendered disregard on an impoverished, 1940s Midwest, is hard for White Americans to digest.