The Toni Morrison Reader: The Bluest Eye

Join your fellow readers at the Mattapan Branch's book club for our newest series, the Toni Morrison Reader. Light snacks will be provided. Registration recommended but not required. New members always welcome!

This series will span over six months and will include discussions on Morrison's first five novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, The Song of Solomon, and Beloved. Our series will conclude with an author talk from Namwali Serpell about her recent publication, On Morrison.

Serpell is a fiction writer, a literary critic, and a professor of English at Harvard University. Her book of essays, On Morrison, published February 17, 2026, is a national bestseller and was reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review.

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