Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Oprah's Book Club, Para Señor Miguel, Lang:en
Summary
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl,
prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the
dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she
yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she
believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream
grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in
the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our
obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s
virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race,
class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always
characterized her writing.