Recommendations from our site
“The best way to get introduced to Toni Morrison as a novelist is to discover the themes, narrative styles, and ideas that were top of her mind at the beginning of her career as an author. She began The Bluest Eye as an undergraduate student but did not complete it until she returned to her writing after her divorce. The Bluest Eye captures some of her early concerns about the intersection of race, class, and gender. Part of the attraction of the novel is that it resonates with the concerns of Black women and girls, how we navigate our lives with an acute awareness of the disregard and disrespect directed toward Black individuals, families and communities. “ Read more...
Marilyn Mobley, Literary Scholar
Our most recommended books
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison -
In Your Hands
by Brian Pinkney (Illustrator) & Carole Boston Weatherford -
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War
by Tera Hunter -
Fledgling
by Octavia Butler -
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison -
A Black Women's History of the United States
by Daina Berry & Kali Gross
