Bluest Eye, The

noun

1. a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.

Example Sentences

Widely disputed books over the past couple years include Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer,” Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay,” and Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” the ALA points out.

From Seattle Times

I was listening to Mika’s song ‘Blue Eyes’ and it made me think of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye … the ending still chills me.

From Nature

In the decades since “Little Women” was published, children’s novels with black girl heroines have also been published — “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”; “The Bluest Eye”; the works of Virginia Hamilton and Octavia Butler.

From New York Times

She didn’t intend for Toni Morrison to be her published name, but when she finished her first book, “The Bluest Eye,” the galley read “A novel by Toni Morrison,” and by then the name had been recorded in the Library of Congress.

From Los Angeles Times

Born in an Ohio steel town in the depths of the Great Depression, Morrison carved out a literary home for the voices of African Americans, first as an acclaimed editor and then with novels such as The Bluest Eye, The Song of Solomon and Beloved.

From The Guardian