Details

Subject(s)

• African American girls—Fiction [Browse]
• African Americans—Race identity—Fiction [Browse]
• Ohio—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Summary note

Black eleven-year old Pecola Breedlove prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blonde, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life changes in painful, devastating ways.

Notes

• Novel.
• Princeton copy 1 In original dust jacket.

ISBN

• 0701123745 :
• 9780701123741

OCLC

6464730

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