{"id":4391,"date":"2026-07-02T22:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/social-justice-book-club-the-bluest-eye-by-toni-morrison-bpl-program-virtual-or-prosser-7-7-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T22:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:58:25","slug":"social-justice-book-club-the-bluest-eye-by-toni-morrison-bpl-program-virtual-or-prosser-7-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/social-justice-book-club-the-bluest-eye-by-toni-morrison-bpl-program-virtual-or-prosser-7-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice Book Club: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (BPL Program Virtual or Prosser 7\/7\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Event date:<\/strong> July 7, 2026 <br \/><strong>Event Time: <\/strong>06:30 PM &#8211; 07:30 PM<br \/><strong>Location:<\/strong> <br \/>1 Tunxis Ave<br \/>Bloomfield, CT 06002-0337<br \/><strong>Description:<\/strong><br \/>For July, we will read one of the most chronically banned\/challenged books in the country, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. In Morrison&#8217;s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove\u2014an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others\u2014prays 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. Books will be available at Prosser or McMahon Wintonbury, or read\/listen on the Libby app.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date: July 7, 2026 Event Time: 06:30 PM &#8211; 07:30 PMLocation: 1 Tunxis AveBloomfield, CT 06002-0337Description:For July, we will read one of the most chronically banned\/challenged books in the country, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. In Morrison&#8217;s acclaimed &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Social Justice Book Club: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (BPL Program Virtual or Prosser 7\/7\/2026)\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/social-justice-book-club-the-bluest-eye-by-toni-morrison-bpl-program-virtual-or-prosser-7-7-2026\/#more-4391\" aria-label=\"Read more about Social Justice Book Club: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (BPL Program Virtual or Prosser 7\/7\/2026)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batvonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}