Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.
In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. …
Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.
In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her.
When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...
224 pages
English language
Published May 16, 2014 by Penguin Random House.
Audio cassette
English language
Published April 8, 1970 by Recorded Books.
Published Nov. 8, 1972 by Pocket Books.
Unknown Binding
Published July 8, 1984 by Perfection Learning Prebound.
English language
Published 2002 by Pearson Education, Limited.
173 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1994 by Picador.
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