Toni Morrison's classic is beautiful and horrifying. Pecola Breedlove is the central character yet we see her only through others. She is ugly, she knows she is ugly, she just wants to be pretty. She wants blue eyes because all of the examples in her life are of pretty blue-eyed girls. Pecola's life is not great. Her family is poor and on the bottom end in every way. She seems to be the thing people look at to think, "At least my life isn't as bad as Pecola's." This isn't really an enviable position but then things just get worse for her. Not easy to read but not easy to put down. Hard to believe this was Morrison's first book. She is a national treasure.
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