![]() ![]() After all, Morrison appeared on the list six times in the last twenty years, and The Bluest Eye previously made the list in 2006, 2013, 2014, and 2020 (even Morrison’s 1987 Nobel Prize-winning novel Beloved made the list in 20). It is no surprise to me that The Bluest Eye once again appeared on the American Library Association’s Top 10 Banned Books list. and New York as the story came to its climax, and spent the rest of the week wondering what it is about her writing that allows it to transcend space and time to wrap its arms around your chest and squeeze until you feel you may burst. I wept on I-95 halfway between Washington D.C. But hearing the novel read in Morrison’s voice, I experienced it anew. ![]() ![]() Like many readers, I first experienced Morrison’s work in a high school English class and have regularly returned to it throughout college and adulthood. This was not my first encounter with the text. Last weekend I listened to the audiobook version of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye for the first time. ![]()
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