Banned Book Club | The Bluest Eye
Sat, Nov 22
|Knox County Library - Burlington Branch
A new book club is in rotation! We'll tackle our next banned book, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
Time & Location
Nov 22, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Knox County Library - Burlington Branch, 4614 Asheville Hwy, Knoxville, TN 37914, USA
About the Event
Co-led by our Bookshop Director Annastasia Williams and Michelle Christian, from UTK’s Department of Sociology, the Banned Book Club will regularly read and discuss commonly banned or challenged books in Tennessee. Join us in building an active local community to mobilize against book bans!
More About The Bluest Eye
A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.
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.
Purchase the book in store or online through Bookshop.org.
Tickets
RSVP
This ticket is your RSVP. The event is free, but we are always accepting donations.
$0.00
RSVP & Book
This ticket includes an RSVP and a copy of the book "Here For It". Books can be picked up from The Bottom upon purchase of the ticket.
$16.00
+$0.40 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00