Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature and part of the "Oprah's Book Club", Toni Morrison's book The Bluest Eye tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. She 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. Set in the fall of 1941 in Lorain, Ohio, Pecola's life does change - In painful, devastating ways.