The Bluest Eye Barnes was meant to stay anonymous

was meant to stay anonymous and in the past

gazing out her window one night

We live in an interesting time

Shetty grew up in a family where you could become one of three things

The Bluest Eye Barnes was meant to stay anonymousThe Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven year old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom.