Annotation
From Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison comes the story of a young black girl who longs to be like the blond, blue-eyed children that America loves-a novel "so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry" (The New York Times).
Characters
| Name | Breedlove, Pecola |
| Gender | Female |
| Trait | African American |
| Genre | Literary Coming of age Psychological Sociological Fiction |
| Topics | Social outcasts African Americans Girls Dysfunctional families Child sexual abuse Racism Nature of beauty Disillusionment Poverty Social acceptance |
| Setting | Lorain, Ohio |