Set in the early 1940s, The Bluest Eye is the story of three young black girls living in Lorain, Ohio: two sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, and a foster child taken in by their family, Pecola Breedlove.  The first page tells us that bad things are in store for Pecola- she becomes pregnant with her father’s baby and that baby dies- and then Claudia narrates the fall, winter and spring that lead to those events.  Interspersed in between Claudia’s chronological account of these three seasons […]