THE BLUEST EYE (audiobook) by Toni Morrison
The author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Originally published in 1970. This audiobook version was published in 2011 by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. Read by the author, Toni Morrison. Duration: 7 hours, 6 minutes Unabridged. Synopsis: This is a story of a girl named Pecola who lives in Ohio in the 1940's. She is sexually abused by her father and only knows her mother by the name Mrs. Breedlove. Sometimes she lives with other families as her family struggles. Pecola is universally considered an ugly child. Pecola wants nothing more than to have blue eyes like Shirley Temple because she is convinced that blue eyes would make her pretty. The narrative goes round and round and moves back and forth in time, often re-telling certain aspects of the story from different perspectives that fill in the gaps as the reader proceeds. In the end, it is not a complicated story, but it is told in a complicated manner. My review: Undoubtedly, my take on this book is over