Upon its release, the book received positive reviews, including one from The New York Times. Morrison’s The Bluest Eye tells the story of a young African American girl named Pecola who imagines her life would be less difficult if she could only have blue eyes. And I was eager to read a story where racism really hurt and can destroy you.” Every little homely Black girl was a joke or didn’t exist in literature. On the experience of writing this first novel, Morrison has said, “When I wrote The Bluest Eye, I came at it not as a writer but as a reader. However, the novel The Bluest Eyewould not be published until 1970, when Morrison was 39 years old. Morrison began working on her first novel in 1961 as part of a writer’s group at Howard University.
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