Do you love to read? So do we! us for the NEPM Book Club — a quarterly virtual meet-up dedicated to bringing NEPM friends together to chat about new, diverse and interesting fiction.
Our next meeting will be Thursday, July 24 at 7 p.m. We'll be reading "The Bluest Eye" by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.
ABOUT THE NOVEL
Shunned by the town’s prosperous Black families, as well as its white families, 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives. In awe of her clean, well-groomed schoolmates, and certain of her own intense ugliness, Pecola tries to make herself disappear as she wishes fervently, desperately for the blue eyes of a white girl.
Toni Morrison's debut "The Bluest Eye" remains one of her most powerful, unforgettable novels — and a significant work of American fiction. “The Bluest Eye” tied for third on the American Library Association's list of the most challenged books of 2024.
Learn more about the NEPM Book Club at nepm.org/bookclub.n