The Bluest Eye (Lovely prose, but not my cup of tea)

The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
2/5 stars
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The Bluest Eye is about some young African-American girls and their lives and the things that happen, and the things they hope for.

I tried something new with this book, and I listened to it as an audio book.
While it was nice to hear the different inflections, etc, I kind of had a hard time following the action and the storyline, and I doubt I will do this again. For me seeing the words and reading them makes the story more linear and it makes it easier for me to understand.

As far as the story itself, It was just OK for me, I felt like it really jumped around.
It started with the 2 little girls, then talked about Polly the Mom, then the Charlie the Dad, then some other people who I wasn't really sure how they fit in...

The prose and writing are lovely, but the story is just all over the place.
I get that it's a very important topic and very powerful and resonates strongly with some groups, but it just didn't hit that note for me.