Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.

《最蓝的眼睛》出版于1970年，是1993年诺贝尔文学奖获得者Toni Morrison的首部小说。小说讲述一个十一岁的美国黑人小女孩Pecola Breedlove对金发碧眼的渴望，希望自己的眼睛变蓝，这样她就变的漂亮，别人都会注意到她，她的世界也会因此不同。小说展现了她渴望深处的梦魇以及为了实现梦想的悲剧。