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 ...

The Bottom’s Banned Book Recs: The Rabbit’s Wedding by Garth Williams, The Giver by Lois Lowry, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M.

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah should be taught on every college campus, as well as The Bluest Eye, but I'm sure both will be.

Her books include The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved. During a news conference, children's author Elisa Stone Leahy, of Right to Read Ohio and Authors Against Book Bans, said that ...