Vital Voices Book Discussion: The Bluest Eye

Program Type:

Adult Programs, Book Discussion

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

If you're looking for stories that take you to uncharted places and reveal unexplored traditions, the Vital Voices book discussion is the place to be. Every second Tuesday of the month at 7pm, we’ll discuss original texts from groundbreaking authors who are reframing the course of the world as we know it. Check out an ebook or audiobook in Libby/Overdrive and/or Hoopla, or stop by the Adult Services Desk on the second floor to pick up a copy (quantities are limited). Questions? Email RSVP@orlandparklibrary.org or call 708-428-5150 for more information.

  • January 11: A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 

  • February 8: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 

  • March 8: White Ivy by Susie Yang 

  • April 22: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 

Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. (NoveList)

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