Pecola vokser op i de raceadskildte amerikanske 1940’ere. Overalt møder hun modstand, foragtes både af sorte og hvide. Men i sine drømme har hun blå, blå øjne, som sin højtelskede lyshårede dukke.
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was a Nobel Prize–winning American author, editor, and professor. Her contributions to the modern canon are numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. She won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.