Rec | THE BLUEST EYE - TONI MORRISON

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Rec'd on 📖 6/11: ONE (1) OF YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS

such a powerful, beautiful, lyrical, and gutwrenching examination of race, beauty, femininity, family, etc, etc.. I could go on about it, but I'll just say that its prose somehow embodies not only poetry, but as this old NYT review states, also "history, sociology, folklore, nightmare and music." if you haven't read it, you must!

@acer

Jun 11, 2025

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@dracula

toni morrison is literally just a genius. read song of solomon if you haven't, it's my favorite morrison so far. she writes with such empathy.

Jun 12, 2025

@acer

@DRACULA such a genius. I’m reading Sula right now and Song of Solomon is next on my list!

Jun 12, 2025

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