{"id":73885,"date":"2025-03-18T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=73885"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:03:45","slug":"sub-rosa-reading-group-the-bluest-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2025\/03\/18\/sub-rosa-reading-group-the-bluest-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Sub-Rosa Reading Group: The Bluest Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sub-Rosa is a reading group that meets once a month to discuss feminist and obscure literature.<\/p>\n

Our selection for this month is The Bluest Eye<\/em><\/a> by Toni Morrison.<\/p>\n

We will meet Saturday, March 29 at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong> at the store.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in attending please send us your email to bookbeatorders@gmail.com, message Book Beat on Instagram, or inquire in-store.<\/p>\n

Books are in stock now and discounted 15%.<\/p>\n

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u2022 A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME \u2022 From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner\u2014a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Morrison\u2019s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove\u2014an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others\u2014prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.\u201d \u2014The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA profoundly successful work of fiction…Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth…it is an experience.\u201d \u2014The Detroit Free Press<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis story commands attention, for it contains one black girl\u2019s universe.\u201d \u2014Newsweek<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was an American writer noted for her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community and for her poetic, luminous prose.<\/p>\n

Considered one of the greatest contemporary American novelists, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, becoming the first Black female writer in history to be honored with the prize, as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Among her best-known novels are The Bluest Eye<\/em>, Sula<\/em>, Song of Solomon<\/em>, Beloved<\/em>, Jazz<\/em>, Love<\/em>, and A Mercy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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