From Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison comes the story of a young black girl who longs to be like the blond, blue-eyed children that America loves-a novel "so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry" (The New York Times).

"She reveals herself...as a writer of considerable power and tenderness, someone who can cast back to the living, bleeding heart of childhood and capture it on paper....With the flaws and virtues tallied, I found myself still in favor of 'The Bluest Eye'....The writer who can reveal the beauty and the hope beneath the surface is a writer to seek out and to encourage."         -- Haskel Frankel

"So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."