NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.

In Morrison s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that peopl ...