Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s 11 novels, from The Bluest Eye to Beloved, achieved that rare, beautiful combination of being both canonical works of literature and human stories that have stayed close to readers’ hearts:
Like many girls before and after me, I would place a towel on my head, pretending it was the long flowing, straight hair I saw on white women in TV and movies.That hair was bouncier, and in my estimation at the time, prettier than my kinks. I wished my nose was thinner and straighter and -- as I came into my adolescence -- my body less curvy.It was as a young teen that I first read"The Bluest Eye," the story of Pecola, a poor black girl who longed for blue eyes.
"It is the story of Nel Wright and her non-conformist friend Sula Peace, who stirs up the citizens of The Bottom, a mostly black community in Ohio.The book helped elevate conversations about black feminism and literary criticism.It also set off debate over whether Sula was a heroine or a villain, given that she was someone who could stand by and watch as her mother burned to death in the front yard"not because she was paralyzed, but because she was interested.
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