To increase awareness of book bans and raise money to overturn them, groups all across the country are hosting Readout events during Banned Books Week, September 22-29. Here in Duxbury, we’ll be reading one of the most commonly banned books in America, The Bluest Eye, by Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison. We’ll get together to discuss the book on September 24th, from 6 to 8 pm in the Settler Room of the Duxbury Free Library. If you can’t attend in person, you can join us via Zoom.

“In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.” Amazon

Copies of the Bluest Eye are available to purchase at Booked. in the Duxbury Marketplace.

While this event is free, we encourage you to make a donation to help support Defense of Democracy, a grass roots organization fighting to overturn book bans. To learn more about Defense of Democracy visit www.defenseofdemocracy.org.

You can register for the event and make a donation here.

Readout: The Bluest Eye is sponsored by Booked., Defense of Democracy, Duxbury for All, and the Duxbury Free Library.